These are the best moments of preparing for the trip. We have road tested Bristol's finest coffee houses, mulled over our upcoming adventure in greasy spoons (and there are a few) but some of the best planning/brainstorming sessions have been spent in a particular pie shop on Stokes Croft - so good it may become the Loony Lassis's second home. A...

Almost finished packing. 4 hours 'till my train leaves and I think I may almost have run out of things to faff about. I've checked my petrol stove works by boiling a kettle, only to find I'd run out of milk so had nothing to do with a kettle of boiling water after all. Spent the first 12 hours of the day trying to put my bike back together in an...