RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Views [709]
Day Nine Irkutsk to Moscow Train Final Packing done and the food supplies sorted, we were met on time by Olga who presented us with a bottle of Champers! Might be in reply to the US$50 tip we gave her for all her good work? The train itself was ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 | Views [410] | Comments [1]
Hello People, first chance to access the Internet, here in Irkutsk, central Siberia, halfway to Moscow. Even this is only an email cafe...one cannot use a memory-stick or upload from a computer...hence I have eight pages of travel tales sitting on my ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [616]
Article Two Day Two Journal Entry Four We spent most of the daylight hours starting out at the Siberian Landscape. It is totally different from what we anticipated; we thought there would be long sweeping plains with lush grass as per films of ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Friday, 17 Aug 2007 | Views [510]
Article One Journal Entry: 18 August 2007: Vladivostok via Seoul Seoul Brisbane to Seoul Departed from home via an AUD$40 Taxi to the airport with no hassles. Checked through Immigration and let loose into duty-free land. Not much use as ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 11 Aug 2007 | Views [911] | Comments [1]
Hello People, here we are, five sleeps to go and today I almost wrecked our whole travel project: How? We had a dump-run to get rid of all the rubbish before we leave. Dump-run completed, I return home and was almost rammed by a ‘Learner-... Read more >
Tags: Lost!
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 2 Aug 2007 | Views [629]
Hello People, well time marches on and now we have only two weeks before the pre-dawn rush to the airport...note: must book Taxi! Most of the bills have been paid, especially all the travel costs, Hire-cars are booked for pick-up at various airports ... Read more >
Tags: Work
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 16 Jul 2007 | Views [566]
And, there I was, thinking that I had clearly advised all and sundry, well the readers (if any) of this journal, that we would be leaving on the 16th August. Today, which is the 16th of July, I have received no less that three 'phone calls wishing us ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 7 Jul 2007 | Views [478]
With retirement looming we decided to start planning a world-wide holiday itinerary by simply listing all the places, things, events, whatever, that we individually would like to visit, see, sample or do. Unfortunately, the list grew longer and longer ... Read more >
Tags: Work
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