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Older Articles, by Month

Silk Road Trip

*The Silk Road Trip
Turkey 🇹🇷

This is the End, my Friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4 The end of my Silk Road journey. My final days in istanbul before returning home. I'm sitting in a cafe in Istanbul having toast...

*The Silk Road Trip
Iran 🇮🇷

In the Persian Empire

My time in Iran is coming to a close now, only a few more days left. I have become captivated and enchanted by this extraordinary...

*The Silk Road Trip

Habibi, my Mellow Yellow Chariot

The start of the expedition with Oasis Overland. Some details about the truck and journey. When I returned from the World Nomad Games to Bishkek,...

*The Silk Road Trip
Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

Uzbekistan

This is an account of my travels through Uzbekistan from the border crossing with Kazakhstan to the border crossing at Turkmenistan, a period of 11...

*The Silk Road Trip
Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

Kyrgyzstan

I'm almost a fortnight on the road now. Days are blurring together and the only container of my experience is not time but place. There...

Trans-Siberian Trip

*The Silk Road Trip
*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip

Dreams and Dreaming the Dream

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...

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

Omsk to Severobaykalsk

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...

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

Moscow to Yekaterinburg

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...

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

Omsk and the Bird of Winged Doom

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...

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

An Intermission

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....

Categiries

*Eastern & Southern African Trip (80)
- Botswana 🇧🇼 (5)
- Kenya 🇰🇪 (15)
- Malawi 🇲🇼 (8)
- Mozambique 🇲🇿 (4)
- Namibia 🇳🇦 (1)
- Rwanda 🇷🇼 (9)
- South Africa 🇿🇦 (1)
- Tanzania 🇹🇿 (24)
- Uganda 🇺🇬 (11)
- Zambia 🇿🇲 (2)
- Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (5)
*Previous Trips (21)
- China 🇨🇳 (3)
- Hong Kong 🇨🇳 (4)
- Thailand 🇹🇭 (19)
  - Chiang Maí 🇹🇭 (3)
*The Silk Road Trip (17)
- Iran 🇮🇷 (1)
- Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3)
- Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (1)
- Turkey 🇹🇷 (1)
- Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 (1)
*Train Journeys 🚉 (8)
*Trans-Siberian Trip (14)
- Belarus 🇧🇾 (1)
- Germany 🇩🇪 (3)
- Poland 🇵🇱 (2)
- Russia 🇷🇺 (7)
Personal (6)
Yes Equality 🌈 (1)

Silk Road Trip

*The Silk Road Trip
Turkey 🇹🇷

This is the End, my Friend

*The Silk Road Trip
Iran 🇮🇷

In the Persian Empire

*The Silk Road Trip

Habibi, my Mellow Yellow Chariot

*The Silk Road Trip
Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

Uzbekistan

Trans-Siberian Trip

*The Silk Road Trip
*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip

Dreams and Dreaming the Dream

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

Omsk to Severobaykalsk

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

Moscow to Yekaterinburg

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

Omsk and the Bird of Winged Doom

*Train Journeys 🚉
*Trans-Siberian Trip
Russia 🇷🇺

An Intermission

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