“Crossing Europe by foot” is quite vague. I suppose I have to choose a route. I don’t have a clear idea for my start and end points, but I’m thinking about crossing both France and Germany. That means from the Western coast of France to the Eastern border of Germany.
Google Maps says that’s about 1600 km. If I walk on average 20 km per day, that should take me 80 days. We can round that up to 3 months. June, July, August.
Obviously I’ll have to research more into the fine details of which trails to follow, but I plan on asking hikers along the way for their advice and adapting my route accordingly.
I saw a t-shirt like this years ago in a mountaineering shop and I meant to get it for you but I didn’t. http://www.redbubble.com/people/creativodesign/works/8255882-don-t-follow-me-i-m-lost?p=t-shirt
We are equally unprepared for you leaving for so long but good luck.
the drawing of your map reminded me an anecdote I do not remember which king belongs, but they asked to the king “x” how he’d like the road was made to connect this place at that place (sorry, I’m terrible with names of places) then the king, angry, picked up a pen (or whatever they used back then), drew on the map and said “well this is the way I want the road be made,” and he had just drawn a straight path from the place this to that. =)