All eight booked

Departures

Leave-by times assume you are walking out of the flat, and include the trip to the station or airport plus a sensible buffer. The two flights are the tight ones.

Route chart

Nine cities, eight legs

Click a marker or a row to open the city dossier. Brass lines are rail, dashed green are flights. Marker size follows the number of nights.

Rail Air
Signature view

The closure calendar

Every day of the trip, coloured by city. A red dot means something you probably want to see is shut that day, or the day carries a hard deadline. Dashed lines are travel days. Click any day to open that city.

Closure or deadline on this day Travel day
Pace check

The rest calendar

Every day of the trip, coloured by city. A sage dot marks a day built to be light: an arrival with nothing ticketed, or an afternoon deliberately left open before a hard morning. Dashed lines are travel days. Click any day to open that city.

Rest or light day Travel day
Do this in order

Booking sequence

Ordered by deadline, not by city. Times are converted to New Zealand time where a release moment matters.

22 degrees of range

What to wear, and what to pack

Before you fly

Paperwork, money, kit

On the ground

Things that catch people out