I've finally started! (Football)

Well I have finally started on my travels - exactly 100 days after leaving my job.

I got a flight from Belfast to Bristol and then hired a car in order to drive to my friends house in Wiltshire so I can see their new baby before travelling. Unfortunately due to circumstances within my control I have to spend today getting two new tyres on the hire car and hope they do not notice any change when I return the car to Heathrow on Saturday.

If they do notice anything I will probably be liable for a large excess which means that before I have even started the trip my beer budget has gone for the next couple of months (to be honest I will probably give up meat and start eating grass rather than do that)