There are three people (that I know of) who have just or are about to start cycling kind of the same route as me. Bill is cycling from Orkney to Rome, Chris is cycling from Brussels to Kephalonia, and Sue is cycling from the Austrian Tyrol to Christchurch (in the UK, not New Zealand!).

Good luck to all three of them; I hope the weather in northern Europe is better than it was for me although I have nothing to complain about here in Tuscany as it is very warm and sunny!