Yesterday was 466 days since returning to the UK, or in other words, 66 weeks and 4 days which has a nice symmetry to it. Looking back we feel very lucky, being able to afford to go travelling, particularly the […]
Travelling by Amtrak
Americans don’t know how good they have it with Amtrak trains, I would go as far as to say that they are wasted on the majority of them. The number of people we met who had never travelled by train […]
The Reunification Express
Even since watching Michael Palin Full Circle, the one thing above all that I wanted to do in Vietnam was travel by train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. In fact despite the city name change, the trains still […]
Sweet Carolina (do do doo)
North Carolina was our unexpected last stop in the US, simply because the container ship to Europe left from a place called Wilmington. It was meant to be straight forward to get there too, an overnight train from Miami to […]
Transatlantic, Less Than Frantic
It’s about that time. Today we board the Independent Venture in Wilmington, North Carolina for our home continent. In 11 days time, if everything goes to plan, we will arrive into Antwerp and then four days later catch the train […]
Crossing the Pacific Ocean by Cargo Ship
It took 15 days at sea to cross the Pacific from Xiamen, China on Saturday 2nd December to Los Angeles, USA on Sunday 16th December. Our double day was Saturday 9th December 2017. We travelled with CMA CGM on the […]
From Hanoi to Hong Kong
It’s possible to travel overland from Vietnam all the way to Hong Kong within 24 hours. If you plan ahead, it is only a matter of two trains and then two metro lines taking you to Kowloon. One train to […]
Getting around Japan
We arrived in Japan by ferry from Busan in South Korea and disembarked in the city of Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu. Knowing most of our travel in Japan would be by train, rail passes had already been purchased […]
Taking a train in China
Taking the train in China is a variable experience as many different train classes exist. We thought the only way to understand would be to try as many as we could! Who knows, the ‘hard seat’ might not be all […]
The Iron Road (the Trans-Manchurian)
So, here comes a long post. Instead of writing about each of the train journeys separately, I thought it might be more interesting to compare them in one. And not too many train-based posts for those less passionate about them […]
