Days 14 to 20, 14-20 Sept 2017, Moscow, 3592 km from Dublin. Want to hear the gods laugh? Well, tell them your plans. My plan was to spend a day or so in Moscow, then to St Petersburg to see the architecture but mainly to spend 2 days in the Hermitage.[…]
Days 12 & 13, 12th to 13th Sept 2017 – Minsk, Belarus I left Warsaw for Minsk at 2am in the morning from an outlying station, not in the centre of the city. It was a pretty grim utilitarian place with no shops open at that time of night. The[…]
Days 7 to 11, 7th to 11th Sept 2017 – Warsaw. I’m writing this on my last day in Warsaw and I’ll be catching the train to Minsk in Belarus later on this evening. I find I can recollect better when memory has consolidated eve0nts of the day and my hippocampus has[…]
Days 4, 5 & 6 – Berlin The journey from Cologne to Berlin was my first longish trip, 6 hrs in all. The first hour or so was a bit boring and I got restless thinking about the hours ahead but the creaking sound of the train moving, and also[…]
Day 1 – 1 Sept 2017 I locked my hall door at 6:45am this morning and started walking down Gardiner Street to get the 53 bus to Dublin Ferryport. I reached the intersection of Summerhill, when, to my left, a sudden surprising burst of colour grabbed my attention. It was[…]
