And into China, and the end of the trans-sib
After the previous text heavy post, here’s a picture heavy one! The ride from UB to Beijing was completed in about 28 hours. We were in…
August 30, 2015
August 26, 2015 “I’m going on a quest”
While travel is generally quite enjoyable, the longer term backpacker will, at some point, face the inevitable. Said traveller will need to take precious time away…
August 24, 2015 
Into the Wild (Jalman Meadows Ger Camp)
While UB is a nice enough city, to understand what Mongolia is all about, you really need to move out of the city. A lot of…
August 20, 2015 
Getting to Mongolia, and hanging around Ulaanbaatar
The penultimate leg of the trans-sib was Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar. This time, we travelled second class, and shared the compartment with an Italian traveller. D had…
August 18, 2015 
Irkutsk, Listvyanka and Baikal (Why are you here?)
Irkutsk is the largest city in Siberia, and is decent sized town with a few things to see. For most tourists, though, it is primarily a…
August 15, 2015 
Travelling across space and time on the trans-siberian
Around midnight, we got on the trans-siberian (more accurately, the trans-manchurian*) train number 20 to get to Siberia. The journey was over 5,000 kms, and would…
August 14, 2015 August 8, 2015 
From Riga to Moscow
Next we had to get ourselves to Moscow! As usual, the two options were bus or train. The bus was a 16hr journey at 55EUR per…
August 8, 2015 
Days out in Riga (Latvia)
Ok this post is going to be a shorter one, because we have already written the post about travelling from Riga to Moscow, and our posts…
August 7, 2015 
Nights out in Riga (Latvia)
Riga is supposed to be great for nightlife. There is also, apparently, a dark side to partying in Riga. Riga’s old town is the compact central…
