In 1969 when I first trotted round the world, I met a guy called Phil in Western Australia and we hatched a plan for the following year. I was to fly out to Perth and together we would hitch a ride on a banana boat, or something similar, from Freemantle to Vladivostok. On arrival inContinue reading “Vladivostok – finally made it!!”
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Moscow – what a fantastic place!
This is just a short post as it’s quite late. Tomorrow we’re off to the railway station to catch the Trans-Siberian train to Irkutsk. We get off there for about 3-4 days, either walk across the frozen Lake Baikal to an island where we have a homestay with local families in a sort of communityContinue reading “Moscow – what a fantastic place!”
The road to Novgorod Land
After a very lazy morning, we set off to Novgorod, breaking there for one night as the journey to Moscow is long. So about 3-4 hours on the road today and about 8 tomorrow. The roadside wooden houses are in a much worse state here in Russia than in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The reasonContinue reading “The road to Novgorod Land”
Russia – St Petersburg
April 8th – we left Tallinn behind in icy rain. On the left hand side of the road, the ice on the Baltic Sea was right up to the shore, like frozen froth. The bay at Tallinn is iced over, with ice-breakers working to ensure that the ferry to Helsinki, and other ships, can keepContinue reading “Russia – St Petersburg”
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