A Road Worth Travelling
Apparently all roads lead to Rome. For this summer's expedition we've decided to apply this quite literally and have designed a month long road trip from Oxford to Rome: from our front door via the Channel Tunnel, through France and Italy. Our mandate - to move slowly (with the roof down), to take mostly small and pretty roads, to learn Italian from audio CDs while we drive, to stay in local farm houses where possible, and to eat simply and well from the produce of the place. We plan to punctuate with picnics, lots of them, and have built a mobile kitchen in the boot so that we can tumble out wherever we land. This is our inventory must-packs for a road worth travelling.
Must-Pack Inventory
1. For water - Simax Laboratory Measuring Bottle
2. For ground cover and warmth - Turkish Beach Towel / Blanket
3. For warm drinks (and morning yogurt) - Riess Enamel Camping Mugs
4. For capturing - Leica D-Lux 109
5. For the love of the game - Travel Scrabble
6. For toddies - Stanley Pocket Flask
7. For cutting small things - Opinel Folding Knife
8. For feet (and hands and elbows) - Farmer's Foot Cream
9. For picnic storage - Riess Enamel Tiffin
10. For way finding - Michelin Regional Maps of France & Italy
11. For cutting bigger things - K. Sabatier Cuisine Knife
12. For (almost) every eventuality - Swiss Champ Victorinox Pocket Knife
13. For field notes and drawings - Midori- Japan Notebook
14. For pencil drawings - KoH-I-Noor Mechanical Pencil
15. For water and wine - Duralex Gigogne Glasses
16. For shading - Set of Twelve Faber Castell Pencils
17. For colouring - Grao Vasco Orange Crayons
18. For listening - Anker Auxiliary Cord
See you on (or at the side of) the road!
