Long Promised Road

On Wednesday February 2nd 2000 in the drizzle and the gloom of a wintry Dutch dawn Neil Robinson stepped off a P&O ferry in Rotterdam and took the first confident steps of a journey that was supposed to take him all the way to Istanbul on foot. It was at this point that things began to go seriously wrong. Recurrent tendinitis a severely strained achilles the worst 'flu epidemic to hit the Odenwald in living memory and more blisters than a warehouse full of bubble-wrap all played their part in a journey which was destined as most great journeys are never to go quite according to plan.