At last, after years of planning and following one failed, or aborted, attempt, I finally arrived in Almaty and hit the Silk Road. Woohoo. It feels very different to Astana and has that delightful air of chaos I know from being in Asia in the past. It invites you to[…]
Friday 24th November – Astana Main process today has been travelling from Helsinki to Astana, arriving and travelling around Astana. The flight was uneventful. The plane, a Finnair one, was half empty. Whew, I was worried it might be half full. It left right on time at 9.25pm Helsinki time.[…]
It’s been awhile since I posted anything here as I’ve been caught up with work and especially that GDPR brain scrambling shiteology. I’ve decided that GDPR stands for God Damn Poxy Rubbish and moved on. So, where am I on planning my trip? When will I be joining the road[…]
Technobabble time. I love technology and have been an early adopter of internet related thingys for yonks. I got my first real computer in 1987 and a modem a year later. I bought the modem at an auction in London for £100. It was a huge metal box and ran[…]
This is just a brief overview of my travelling plans on The Silk Road for later on this year. If you managed to get to the end of my last blog, congratulations, you deserve a medal. In it, I was talking about how I’m still in the process of formulating[…]
I had a very vivid dream last night. I was on an old boat. It was once a minesweeper but now reconditioned as a deep-sea vessel. We were on a very choppy sea in deep coastal waters on the very edge of a continental shelf. The waves were very clear[…]
09:44:54Days 25 to 29 (Note: sorry but internet really slow so cannot add photos.Will try to update as soon as I get good connection) Omsk to Severobaykalsk is my longest train ride to date but not the longest during my whole trip. That will be Vladivostok to Irkutsk, a 70hr[…]
Days 20 to 23, 20-23 Sept 2017, Yekaterinburg, 5383 km travelled from Dublin I’ve been on the train for 17hrs now and we have travelled a long way from the sophisticated western world of Moscow. We left bang on time at 16:38 and it seemed like, in no time at[…]
Day 24, 24 Sept, Omsk, 6332km from Dublin Just checked into my hotel in Omsk and taking some time to relax and reflect on my travels over the past few days. It takes a while for memories and impressions to clear and coalesce. I generally write about previous journey during[…]
Day 31, 1st Oct 2017, train from Tynda to Komsomolsk, about 12,000km from Dublin This is not about anything I’ve done or anywhere I’ve been. I’ve been on the road for exactly a month now and thought I’d reflect on the journey to date. First impression is how far aware[…]
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 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[…]
