Tough driving through Kazakhstan and Russia
After traveling through Kyrgyzstan, we always knew that Kazakhstan and Russia would be a long, hard slog and that’s exactly how it turned out with some 2,700 km covered in five consecutive days of...
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Mongol Rally 2013
Tomorrow I’m heading off with three great mates as team ThereAndBactrian on a 10,000 mile adventure to Mongolia in what’s known as the Mongol Rally.
In a...
And how exactly does one get to Mongolia?!
When I jumped on board and told the guys I’d be joining them on this adventure, I had no idea what lay between Europe and Mongolia. I figured Russia would likely come into it, possibly China? I knew this was ‘Stan’...
Watching ice hockey in Moscow!
I visited Moscow and St Petersburg in April for 10 days and in Moscow I met up with Maria, whom I’d met some two years before in Vietnam.
I couldn’t quite believe my luck when Maria asked if I fancied watching...
From Russia with love
Russia is a country I’d wanted to visit for ages and as I boarded my surprisingly short flight, you’d think it would take longer than four hours to fly from London to Moscow, I was super excited. The country has always been a little mysterious, somewhat vague, and while that...