Coming into Vitebsk region
In the background is one of the little bus shelters that came to be my regular resting places
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After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a... [read more]
After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a... [read more] Blog: The Bicycle Diaries - from Lithuania across Belarus into Russia
Date: August 16th 2009
Day 1 Arrive Kaunas, Lithuania, night time. Ask young man in airport shop where to get bus to town centre. He smiles and replies in English. Very un-Soviet - in Russia would have had head bitten off for daring to ask such a question. Ask minivan driver in car park which stop to wait at. Jumps out of van and walks me over to right one. Town centre cleaner and roads better quality than most pl ... read more
Date: August 16th 2009
Day 1 Arrive Kaunas, Lithuania, night time. Ask young man in airport shop where to get bus to town centre. He smiles and replies in English. Very un-Soviet - in Russia would have had head bitten off for daring to ask such a question. Ask minivan driver in car park which stop to wait at. Jumps out of van and walks me over to right one. Town centre cleaner and roads better quality than most pl ... read more
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After spending several years traveling various parts of the world to satisfy a fascination with tribal and nomadic people I now seem to have got stuck in Russia. I earn my living through private tutoring English, travel writing for websites and magazines and taking tourists or journalists on trips to live with the nomadic Nenets reindeer herders of Arctic Siberia's Yamal Peninsula. You can read about my travels here, get advice on independent travel to off the beaten track destinations at my personal website or visit [url=http://www.yamalpeninsul... full info
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