From Danish backwaters and the Romanian capital in autumn, through the lowlands of Belgium and the Netherlands and the glistening isle of Cyprus in spring to an airless room in the back of a modest stadium in Prague.
An odyssey of 14 games, 13 won and one drawn, across nearly 10 months, culminates in the Czech capital against Fiorentina. It is the end of an adventure and maybe with it the end of an era for West Ham. For manager David Moyes, it is the chance to fulfil an ambition and scale a peak.