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Europe » Russia
August 29th 2011

Published: August 31st 2011

This summers adventure is an attempt to hitchhike about 2500miles from Estonia to Turkey. i started in the beautiful medievil town of Tallinn in Estonia. aswell as sightseeing i also got a chance to see His Holyness the Dali Lama on his visit here (i was overjoyed as i missed seeing him when i went to his monastary in India 2 years ago). i went to an incredibile prison which was only closed 5 ye... Read Full Entry

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1st September 2011

Jack Waters
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Russia looks both amazing and a little bit creepy. I assume that they speak a lot of english over there since you seem to have been able to get around with relative ease. The prison looks awesome although a bit strange and eerie. Moscow looks like an incredible city and the architecture looks very extravagant. Shame to hear about the visa being rejected and you being out of pocket. Keep up the blog and the photos, I'm sure you're having a great time.

11th September 2011

Jim89
James Batty

cheers. actually almost no-one speaks English in Russia and Ukraine (its sometimes abit strange being in someones car for a few hours without properly talking). the cities are pritty amazing, but i was glad to go into the mountains in Ukraine to chill out abit. will try and do another blog soon, but it takes ages to upload photos on crappy internet cafe computers. must catch up soon, take care

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