Itinerary of the itinerant Tom

I've been thinking about the trip quite a lot, but I think I'd decided not to talk about it much so as not to bore people, and as a result I realised at the beginning of this week that a lot of my friends didn't know, for example, that I was going off to travel round the world for seven weeks starting on Thursday.

I don't have everything down precisely yet (I may, depending how easy it is to edit Dreamwidth posts from a tablet on hotel wifi ten time zones away, update this as I go); all the hotels and transport in Australia are booked.

But I have bought all the flights in advance, so there are some fixed points; all times are local.

23/8 leave Heathrow 1045, change in Kuala Lumpur, arrive in Perth 25/8 1450

28/8 leave Perth 1750 arrive Adelaide 2210

31/8 leave Adelaide 1025 arrive Melbourne 1210

4/9 2200 Greyhound service Melbourne to Canberra arriving 0600

9/9 1150 scenic train Canberra to Sydney arriving 1615

13/9 leave Sydney 0955 arrive Auckland 1500
(booked one day at Auckland YHA because customs tend to prefer you to know where you're sleeping that night)

{ I am expecting during this period to spend some time in Hamilton where my housemate Dan now works, and to visit Hobbiton and the most famous New Zealand glow-worm cave; perhaps also Rotorua because that looks to be how the coach services fit together, perhaps Taupo because that's on the way }

22/9 leave Wellington 0835 arrive Queenstown 0955

{ there is some wiggling here where I plan to go to the Franz Josef glacier and then across to Christchurch on the TranzAlpine scenic train }

27/9 leave Christchurch 2000 arrive Auckland 2120

28/9 leave Auckland 2005 arrive Vancouver 1405 (yes, six hours before I left - International Date Line)

3/10 leave Vancouver 0900 arrive Montreal 1648

9/10 leave Montreal 1950 change in Keflavik,Iceland and get to Stansted 1615 10/10