Getting ready for Europe

Monday, a Bank Holiday, and (of course) wet and windy -- a good day for staying in and completing preparations for our Europe trip. We did some shopping on Saturday (AA European Driver's Handbook, AA European Road Atlas, French B&B's, handbooks for Rome and Venice), and more on Sunday (European car kit--hazard triangle, fire extinguisher, first-aid kit, GB sticker, headlamp adapters to stop our left-hand-drive car dazzling those right-hand-drive motorists on the Continent: all mandatory in the coutries we're going to); and we also worked out a rough itinerary, which we'll post separately. Today, though, we're going to finalise the routes and timings and print it all out, then Don's going to pack for Europe because he's going to be in Manchester this week and we want to get away promptly when he gets home on Friday evening.