I Arrived in Turkey to find myself in Europe although I am still being woken up at some un-godly hour by the call to prayer and can never quite manage to drop off again. This not helped by the fact that it is snowing outside and I left both of my blankets on the bus and so am sleeping in all of my clothes - again. Took the opportunity to sneak into an empty room and relieve the future occupant of all of their spare bedding. Managed to waste 5 days in Ankara doing not much at all, despite the huge [View Full Entry]

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It only cost $2 to get from the Armenian border to the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Much like Yerevan, Tbilisi is seriously lacking in cheap hotels - that I could find anyway, so I ended up in a strange place that was a small room above a restaurant for a staggering $40. thankfully it was heated and had hot water and lots of space for the rabbit. As I had no idea about Georgia, no maps or no guide book I just set out wandering in the city and hoped that I would come across some cool stuff. I found a river [View Full Entry]

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Just minutes after waving goodbye to the Iranians I was met by Armenian border guards. Girls with long blonde hair flowing from their uncovered heads and the shortest miniskirts that I had seen in a long time. This was a welcome relief from the all in one black blobs that live just the other side of the river. The police here were so surprised to see me that I began to wonder if I had made the right decision, but they were all very friendly and I managed to smuggle my rabbit past them without a problem. I was without a [View Full Entry]

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I have never seen a border like the Torkham border before. I suppose it is because it is the tribal areas and not strictly Pakistan, but anyway there were hundreds of people wandering back and forth everywhere. Loads of children, dragging sacks this way and that trying to avoid the policemen's sticks, and of course a huge queue of trucks. To top it all off, we were all up to our ankles in liquid mud. Generally very chaotic. It would have been quite easy to have walked right through without doing any passport business on either side. In fact we had [View Full Entry]

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Moscow was nothing like I expected it to be, although the only images that I had of it before were those from James bond films, so they were hardly accurate. We were met at the airport by a friend of a friend who not only let us stay in his apartment, but went to stay somewhere else so we had the place to ourselves. On our way back from dinner that night we emerged from the subway to be met by two policemen standing over a tramp lying face down in a pool of his own blood - maybe this place [View Full Entry]

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