In preparation for "The Big Pen".

We appreciate that playing the Max Gogarty card is cheap, but it was too tempting to resist. We'll leave Max alone now, except for pointing out that we too live in North London (Hackney), occasionally wear skinny jeans and spend our money on "food and booze". Unfortunately, we do not write part time for Skins or have Dads in high places. See http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/travelog/2008/02/skins_blog.html, we implore you. (I picked the “we implore you” phrase up from the often very poorly written Lonely Planet guide to Eastern Europe).

Back to business: this blog will document our month spent interrailing around Europe. We begin in Berlin (catchy), end in Milan and the rest, as they say, is roughly planned out on a spreadsheet... Kat (me) will do the majority of the writing, although Charlotte (C) will inevitably jump in with literary (or at the very least, blogging) genius.

The next (and first proper) post will be on Monday, the day before we head off into the very-well-known. The penultimate day - or as I likes to call it, "The Big Pen". We predict it will be regarding the undeniably interesting topics of packing and excitement.... We know, we can't wait for it either.