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Straddling Continents

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

 It has felt like a long time coming but after nearly four weeks of baby steps the trans-Siberia starts now.  Technically only starting in Moscow the traditional route goes down through Nizhny Novgorod across through Perm and the Ural mountains to our current destination of Yekaterinburg and then further on out to Vladivostock.  Because of the false start out of Moscow that was the Golden Ring and then getting sidetracked to Kazan this fourteen hour overnight leg felt like the real beginning of the journey east.  Not least because Yekaterinburg is a further time zone away from Moscow.  The fourth out of eight on  the trip.  This leg also marks the point, in the form of a handy white pillar, where Europe becomes Asia and we reach the verges of Siberia.

Europe on one side, Asia the other.

Europe on one side, Asia the other. [read on]

Faceplant (the post all-nighter bit)

Monday, May 18th, 2009

As if street urchins looking to lift our electronics weren’t enough next up was a seriously unhinged Syrian who of course was going to be joining us for the ride down to Kazan.  Just what you want at five in the morning is a babbling, red leather motorcycle jacket wearing, dreadlocked, lunatic grin sporting, babbler who within five minutes of moving from trying to attract attention from the other side of the room to plopping down next to doc (how does he attract such attention) had whipped out a bunch of family photos and trying to tell us something about them which was incomprehensible due to not being able to speak English or sentences in general.  My main query about this situation was how on earth did this guy end up in the middle of Russia with no clue or luggage? [read on]

Faceplant

Friday, May 15th, 2009
It is safe to say that we are extremely close to a point of physical and emotional ruin.  Things are so bad that we have even managed to get Rdoc to enter a McDonalds, he won't buy anything but the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Administrative changes

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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