Kate and Gen
Kate and Gens Shenanigans
Kate and Gen!
hello
my name is Kate and I am backpacking with my friend Gen for a year. We are 18 year old girls who have deferred our university arts degrees for a year to explore the world and have a good time 😊
I left Australia in November 2011 and Gen left February 2012 to do separate work in Asia (volunteering at an orphanage and teacjing English) before meeting up for the Trans-Mongolian Railway from Beijing all the way to St Petersburg (21 day trip). We travelled through Mongolia, Siberia, China and Russia on this train, stopping along the way for little adventures (like wild horse riding in the Mongolian dessert and sleeping in Gher tents😊 We spent a month in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark afterwards and then flew over to Britain (Liverpool) to find us some jobs! For the past 4 months we have been working 5 jobs between us - Barmaids, Waitresses and Fundraisers. We found ourselves a house share with some great people and saved our earnings. "But now its time for me to go...the autumn moon lights my way...gotta ramble on" (courtesy of Led Zeppelin there). So now we dive into our next travelling adventure which is a Eurail ticket that lasts us 2 months from October to December. NOTE: were couch surfing our way there SO ADD US (Katie Rowbottom)! 😊
We love exploring new cities, meeting other travellers but especially learning about foreign cultures through the people who actually LIVE there.
