It has been a while since I last updated this thought the very busy schedule and the complete lack of access to internet renders the updating difficult. Its been a facinating crossing, leaving Russia going through Khazakstan and crossing all of Uzbekistan. The train journey lasted 46 hours from Astrakhan but it is just a fantastic experience. One dosn't see all that much outside but it is more the life inside the train which makes it so memorable and eventfull. The train left and I travelled with some really funny and entertaining locals most of whom were heading towards Aktau (smallish [View Full Entry]

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Moscow - Volgograd 21hours... Train journey seem to be a lot of fun thought the heat at day reaching 36 to 38c can be a little overwhelming. People are friendly and gladly share they portions between one another. Speaking no russian makes it only that much more fun and entertaining... it is really travelling with the odrinary average russian across trully amazing time speared regions. Volgograd (ex-Stalingrad) Imagine a city new of the 60's with virtually nothing old. The Stalinist environment and structure of the town makes it a strange sight. Its is not as ugly as one could imagine as [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone, Moscow is one amazing place. The people, the culture, sights and life make it a fantastic town with a already very different attidudes in spite of its proximity to Europe. Arriving in Moscow is a bit of a riddle but once on the Metro network the destinations are clear and the stations true masterpieces. It is fast, reliable and comes every few minutes so really enables an easy access all across town. Having been warmly welcomed by my host family the first evening was spent discussing and planning the next few days. In spite of personally not having really [View Full Entry]

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Hello Family and Friends, As you know I am leaving on a world trip for six months through Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, hopefully Tibet, China and finally USA. Well this is only the plan but hopefully it will all work out. I will attempt to regularly update pictures and stories of my trip on this blog to keep you all informed and up to speed. I am now in my final 48hours before departure and quite sincerely it has been a marathon to get all the visas in time. I only yesterday got my last visa and should hopefully now have [View Full Entry]

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