It started, like most impossible things, with a book. Jules Verne promised a man could circle the Earth in eighty days — and some part of us never quite got over it.
Years later, at two in the morning, one of us couldn't sleep and typed the idea out in full: what if we actually did it? Not eighty days, not a hot-air balloon — just us, two backpacks and one stubborn rule. The reply came at 2:05. One word. Yes.
01One rule: under €2000
We gave ourselves a single constraint, the kind that turns a daydream into a plan: the whole loop of long-haul flights had to come in under €2000. Not luxury, not misery — just the cheapest honest way to draw a line around the planet.
So we became students of the strange science of cheap flights — error fares, overnight layovers, the art of flying the wrong way to save a fortune. Slowly a route took shape on the map: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Sydney, and onward. A line that didn't quite close yet.
A dream with a departure date is just a very optimistic to-do list.
02The line begins
We didn't wait until it was perfect. We booked the first leg while it still felt insane, packed light enough to run for a gate, and told exactly the right number of people so we couldn't quietly back out. Then we went to the airport. This is where the log begins.