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In The Beginning

7 years ago me and him first met. We moved in quickly (kind of by accident, but that's a different story) and spent a couple of years just going on mini-road trips but never going too far.

The summer of 2014 we decided to go on a road trip around Europe, and this was the beginning of the travel bug getting to us as a couple. We had both gone off on our own adventures before we met, but now it was different with the two of us.

Now we're 4 years on from that, and our adventures just keep getting better and better. We share a lot of what we do on our social media pages, and often how people asking how we do it when we just have "normal" jobs and have our house etc. So we decided to write about it.

To get us started, we're going to share some of our older adventures, and then as we go on new ones they'll be here.

So first up, let's get started with our first European road trip. This one isn't the best documented one as this is what kicked off the bug, but it's up hill from here.

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