AUSTRIA | Wednesday, 6 May 2009 | Views [92]
Disappointed to find that Vienna is not in black and white, devoid of sinister men lurking in doorways and the pharmacies well stocked with penicillin. The power of Hollywood! On the upside the West End Hostel is terrific at 22 euros, the city is walkable ... Read more >
Tags: stift melk, wachau, vienna
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 9 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Friday, 5 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
changed my mind n skipped Ulan Ude
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Friday, 5 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Wednesday, 3 Dec 2008 | Views [98]
Breakfast in dining car - eggs, sausage bits and tomato, coffee. The scene outside my window is magical for one who lives in usually snowless England; untouched snow, birches, firs all in a pinky early light. So, apart from the bad cold, bad hip, appalling ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [134]
Sadly, there are no adventures to be had in Khabarovsk. The streets are wide and clean, the park closed, the centre is 3km across so a bit of a trek even down to the river which I decide to skip. It is bright, modern, clean, prosperous and dull. Or dull ... Read more >
Tags: negativity
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Views [107]
Well. Thanks to the wonderful internet cafes of Tibet and China and this one in Khabarovsk. I am up to date and can go off and sightsee and have adventures instead. Hurrah!
Tags: blog updated
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Views [92]
Russia is certainly different. In 1983 there were no smart people, no spikeheeled boots, no BMWs, no shops that I recall apart from the ghastly and terribly sad GUM in Moscow. No souvenirs except in the overpriced hard currency foreigner only shops. ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Views [101]
Wake as we stop and go for a cigarette in the corridor. A woman tells me it is 'Meenus 15' and I believe her as there is heaped snow or frost in the corner by the door. The sun is coming up on the snow and birch trees and it is a very long way from ... Read more >
Tags: snow! trains!
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
can't keep me out now
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CHINA | Monday, 1 Dec 2008 | Photo Gallery
Last stop before Russia
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Saturday, 29 Nov 2008 | Views [111]
Leave bag at hotel after morning on the internet at the business centre at the post office. Getting back up the hill and up to the fifth floor so that I could check out nearly killed me. Memo to self: stay in flat towns from now on. Treated myself ... Read more >
Tags: hills, guards, dogs
CHINA | Saturday, 29 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
Leeds to Beijing's London
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Friday, 28 Nov 2008 | Views [96]
Ho ho! Wouldn't let me in in 1983 but cannot keep me out now. Go looking for Dalintourist and find 'Five )'clock Tea', an English teashop run by Barry from Bolton, Lancashire. An oasis of English speakers like Jessica (US) and Maddy (NZ)who are resident ... Read more >
Tags: teashop, beach, yoghurt
CHINA | Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Views [145]
Shaken awake from dead sleep and dream about Kathy Kirby (good grief) by conductor. I talk to my first Russian. Bit dour. Cab to bus station. Phrase book quite good. Extremely helpful boy who works at the station helps me buy my ticket, shows me to ... Read more >
Tags: customs, theft, confusion, chocolate
CHINA | Wednesday, 26 Nov 2008 | Views [108]
Arrive 8.30am in enchanting Harbin. I think Leeds to Beijing's London. It used to be Russian and the architecture reflects this. Leave my bag at the station cloakroom after dear Li Fe has helped me buy tonight's ticket for Suifenhe. Nice cabman takes ... Read more >
Tags: chat, tomatoes, mall
CHINA | Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008 | Views [111]
Long and tiring day cheered by walking into Devin in the lobby. He is not in a Chinese jail but does have to wait a week for his visa. Not being charged for his inadvertent overstay as charming female official let him off on condition that he 'say beautiful ... Read more >
Tags: angels again, devin (bravery of)
CHINA | Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
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