Dear all - For months I have been going on about my grand plans to travel overland from China to Europe. It's now April 2009, the time has finally come to tear myself away from Beijing and embark on my voyage home. Previously my trips between Europe and Beijing have involved a couple of hours waiting in an airport lounge, ten hours on a plane being fed and entertained, and a short car ride to my house. Swift, comfortable and generally not much to write home about. Time for a more interesting way to get home, I thought, as a final celebration of four years of living in China. The idea is to get home entirely overland: no planes allowed, only trains, busses, mini-cabs and perhaps a camel or two if I can manage to stay
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