So yes this a re-write as my first seemed a little too disconnected with the source as I wrote it after the happening of the journey - so I will in fact now re-write my journal entries instead to try and give you all the effect, I desire, of this journey on me. Note it is in present because it was written in the present but of course it all happened in the past I think!?! 26/07/08 Saturday The facts for the train from Moscow to Irkutsk Time - 80 hours Distance - 5175km Cost - 3600 roubles (100 euros) Class [View Full Entry]

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So I made it here after two and a half months of travelling around with this goal in mind - it was nice to get over the border with no real hiccups. First stop was St Petersburg and an air bed “couch” with a Russian named Ivan ‘the (add as you wish)’. Blurry eyed, from the night bus, I made out this somewhat atypical Russian - a kind of longhaired grungy type of style to him, and that’s why I wanted to surf his couch I guess. Instantly, as expected from his profile, it was apparent he was a very intelligent [View Full Entry]

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Firstly then let’s go back to me sitting in the industrial heart of Holland waiting for a hitch, the then; so if you’ve looked at the travel map you’ll know I got to Berlin safely (nice Afghani chap took me at high speed on the German highway!!) and then onwards I ventured to experience many things brightly lit by the souls of things, dimly lit by the hum drum of money and the darkness of the nothing…Back to the now; I find myself sitting on the front porch of a humble Estonian summerhouse on the outskirts of a small Estonian village [View Full Entry]

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