In touch How's it going Sayaka? Sorry to hear you are so busy... perhaps it keeps you out of trouble;) I'm really glad you had a good time travelling in Morocco. I had a blast too. May be taking you up on that offer of a guide in Japan some day:) Take good care, Steven.
Hello, STEVEN!!! I guess I failed in sending a private mail so I write here again. sorry.
Long time no see.
How are you? and where are you now ?? ha ha ~
I'm SAYAKA SATO.
Thank you for your mail.
I was very glad and sorry my answer is late.
I read all your blog and enjoyed them very much.It made me soooo happy :)
i think you are soooo lucky because you visited a lot of countries with your girlfriend and had a good times.
someday i wanna....haha:D
Since I got back from Morocco, I've been very busy with my job (at cram school) and school work every day.
Now I experiment analytical chemistry at my school laboratory and have some tests.
And my practice at hospital and pharmacy will start on May 16th until the middle of Nov.
I feel depressed:( But I do my best!!!!!!!
The days that I spent with you and Marcia in Morocco are the best of my life.I wanna travel with you again. i miss you.
Steven, do you enloy your every day? I hope that.Take care of yourself :D!
Sayaka from JAPAN
marrakech mianders So good to see you made it to the desert i still owe u a trip to the pyramids i havnt forgotten but one day egypt assyria and israel are to be joined by a highway so that should help .lovely photos great writing you really do have a gift for this travel journalism !
Love the picture of the mount it really looks like the fastest camel in the west.
Good luck with the new beginning hope all goes well lots love muim
hi there The photo of the bud was taken by myself outside a village just north of Bukit tinggi. A local lad offered to show us flowers, but they had all withered away, so we saw this instead.
correction Hi,..
I just want to corrected your photos posted,( Sumatera photos)
(Rafflesia , we didn't to see a flowering specimin, but this plant produces the largest flowers in the world a meter i diameter)
Correct:
Is not Rafflesia, but it is Rhizanthes (Rafflesiaceae), because Rafflesia buds is larger than Rhizanthes.Both of them same family but different genera.
when you want to look, the real of Rafflesia image,
you can see
www.rafflesia-in-bloom.blogspot.com
(that is our reseach web-site about Rafflesia)
May i know, where you get that photo's?
for your photos Miningkabau show, Bukit Tinggi
Correct:
Minangkabau show, Bukit Tinggi
regards,
Ridha.
Hi Lelde, Steven,
you have been back to Latvia. Have seen your pics so nice and you look so happy!
Lelde may color her hair~~ (beautiful)
it seems a little cold there, take care & wish you will come to visit here again~
Fried Cottage Cheese Donuts My mouth was watering over the picture of the Cottage Cheese Donuts. Tell us all the recipe of ingredients and then how they are made. Yummy, I want to try some. I think I would like these more than pickle soup.
Lelde, is that light blonde hair I see in the pictures?
Late! Hey you guys!apologies for lack of communication, whats new there....happy Belated Birthday! Will send something once I get a chance...Steven where to? You're sounding very happy and actually quite mature! ahhem...I'm half way thro an artist in residence post...fantastic, just a bit further north from home, so all things been very arty. I have a show at the end of the month...so presssures on...squueeeze! Lots of Love caroline xxxxxx
Lede - are you eating there? U have lost couple kilos since I saw u last time.
It is so funny as my friends went to Bali and had very different experience.. oh well - I believe we all look for diferent things... Bon Voyage home... see u soon in latvia...
Catching Up I just read your last three entries. I've been so busy that I haven't had time to stop and catch up on all your new adventures. Your time in Thailand looked from the pictures and sounded from your narrative just delightful. I was only there once, but I do remember the beaches were beautiful and Bangkok was one huge market. Lelde, I'm so glad you got to see your Mom and she got to share some of your travel experience with you. Well, I'm looking forward to the next installment. Love, Jan
BTW Steven, sadly, the US government didn't do any better job taking care of our servicemen that were exposed to the chemicals used in Vietnam. In fact many suffered for decades while the gov't refused to accept any evidence that the health problems they were having had anything to do with the chemicals that were sprayed on them.
about your questions Hi There,
Here are some answers to your questions. If you have more, feel free to send them.
We started in Latvia, Lelde's home country , by taking an over-night train to Moscow.
We had a travel company do our Russian, Mongolian and Chinese visas for us in one go. The best way though, is to vivit the embassys personally to get each visa- it'll be the cheapest way and you can get more info from them on travel in the countries( we spent around 300 pounds each on these three visas- since we've been travelling we've seen that , by going to the countrie's' embassy abroad to get the visas it will only cost 20-35 US Dollars per country.) The other good thing about getting the visas from the ebassys is that you can change your travel details as you go- getting each country's visa in their neighbouring country's capital.
We booked the first-class trian cabin through a russian company called "spezhy veter"- again, if we were to do it again, then I'd book the tickets at the train station. Our tickets cost about 350 pounds(700 US Dollars) It's MUCH MUCH cheaper to get the tickets at the station for all travel and probably a better idea just to go "soft sleeper" class. You can get tonnes of information on train and other overlan/sea travel at thi amazing site-
www.seat61.com
Costs on the train were just for our food. From Blog: Gobi Desert
Were, how and prize :-) Your trip sounds amazing..!! I want to go there this summer.. :-)
Were did you go from, whitch city ? how did you book the trip ? and what did it cost all together ?
Hope you have the time to answer all my questions, sow i can have the pleasure of going.. :-)
So we are a Latvian and a Brit who've been in the UK for 2 years, working, and are soon off to the Far East to see what we can find. Hope you will enjoy the ride.
PS- This is a bi-lingual blog! English and Latvian.
Hope that saves confusion.... full info
Brass Monkeys
Steven & Lelde
In touch
How's it going Sayaka? Sorry to hear you are so busy... perhaps it keeps you out of trouble;) I'm really glad you had a good time travelling in Morocco. I had a blast too. May be taking you up on that offer of a guide in Japan some day:) Take good care, Steven.