RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 11 Mar 2008 | Views [360]
You'd be forgiven for thinking that the Russian Railway
System hadn't realised the USSR had collapsed long ago; whilst towns such as my
next destination, Nizhny Novgorod, had been dutifully renamed years ago, my
ticket - and the timetable - still ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 4 Mar 2008 | Views [376]
A brief jaunt into Finland
before taking on Russia saw
me catching up with a chap I met on my last Round-the-World trip, a Finn who
was working in Helsinki.
We popped out for a knees-up of some interestingly priced beers... and I
thought London
was ... Read more >
LATVIA | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008 | Views [431]
After my visit to the Hill of Crosses, which had been equal parts awe-inspiring and chilling (I have never seen so many instruments of torture in one place), I bussed it back to the centre of Siauliai and transferred to a plush new coach to take me over ... Read more >
LITHUANIA | Tuesday, 19 Feb 2008 | Views [494]
The few Polish people I had met so far had been really nice and friendly, and not the misery guts I had for some reason expected them to be. My brief traversal of the country had left me with positive impressions, but now I needed to advance north. ... Read more >
POLAND | Tuesday, 12 Feb 2008 | Views [484]
All the work I'd got behind me had given me the taste for travel again, so I started my Winter invasion eastwards, jumping a train heading to the German border town of Frankfurt-an-der Oder, also known as "the even shitter Frankfurt".
When ... Read more >
GERMANY | Tuesday, 5 Feb 2008 | Views [530]
Berlin isn't picture-postcard perfect by any means. It has graffitti on its graffitti, and the Soviets joylessly left their funtional concrete, grey mark on the eastern side of the city. And yet it is Number 1 on my list of places in which I could ... Read more >
CZECH REPUBLIC | Tuesday, 29 Jan 2008 | Views [345]
I continued to be based in Prague, working out of my hostel bed and feeling comfortable. Having got the majority of my work done I allowed myself a few trips out. I explored the old town, amazed at how packed it was out of season - no doubt the British ... Read more >
CZECH REPUBLIC | Sunday, 20 Jan 2008 | Views [334]
My friend Yan kindly sent me on my way with a bumper packed lunch for the train, including a few surprises, such as some great chilli chocolate and a non-edible but distinctly useful German-made padlock. It had been great to meet up again, and I feel ... Read more >
GERMANY | Sunday, 13 Jan 2008 | Views [469]
Being home for Christmas had invigorated me a great deal. After cycling through (parts of!) France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium, I felt a fair bit burnt out. I used Christmas to kick back, spend ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 19 Dec 2007 | Views [554]
All nostalgia'd up from my time in Mainz, I took off down the Rhine by bike. I started off following the banks of the river, but pretty soon I came up against a slight issue. The river, which I had thought had looked rather swollen, was lapping over ... Read more >
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GERMANY | Wednesday, 12 Dec 2007 | Views [628]
Although Switzerland's landscape consists of roughly 75% mountains, it was a fabulous place to cycle if you kept to the valleys, with plenty of feasts for the ol' peepers. On my journey from Zürich to the Swiss border today I followed Lake Zürich's ... Read more >
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SWITZERLAND | Wednesday, 5 Dec 2007 | Views [621]
However much I loved Paris, I was itching to get somewhere German-speaking. I had studied German at school and also attended a year of my university course at a German university. However, that was seven years ago and I had hardly spoken any German ... Read more >
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FRANCE | Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007 | Views [459]
I never in a million years thought I would become addicted to French Teletext, but every morning without fail I was looking up the French news pages on the telly to find out progress on the strike. And success! It seemed as if today, the start of ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
FRANCE | Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 | Views [505]
Whilst on the train bound for the southern British city of Portsmouth - the only British island city, fact fans - I received some great news that kick-started the second phase of my Lack of Plan, which was to cycle and train it to Berlin. The day before ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007 | Views [438]
At 10:45 am on 7th November 2007 I said goodbye to my folks, walked out of my house and turned left. And so my travels started. I'd been planning to head off on another long stint for a while, and now the time was right: I'd just finished my contracted ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
