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Embassies and visas

At first it felt like a logistics nightmare attempting to work out when and where is best to get visas, before we left or on the go? After researching the requirements for every country we thought we might visit, we […]

Posted on April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Preparation, Round the world, VisasTagged china, russia, usa, vietnam, visas4 Comments

Lessons Learnt: Russia

We’ve only been in China, or rather out of Russia, for 11 days and it seems a world away. I guess it is really, Russia felt European and even towards the far East in Buryatia there’s still a large Slavic […]

Posted on May 15, 2017July 30, 2017 by Rosanna
Posted in Lessons Learnt, Round the world, RussiaTagged bus, food, lessons learnt, russia, toilets6 Comments

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

“It’s funny” beamed Ivan, twisting round in the front passenger seat to address the four tourists squeezed into the back seat of the taxi “he tells me that this isn’t actually his taxi, he is borrowing it from a friend […]

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, RussiaTagged bus, hill, russia, temple5 Comments

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 […]

Posted on May 12, 2017January 7, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in China, Round the world, Russia, TransportTagged china, journey, russia, sleeper, train2 Comments

First 24 hours in China

Last night on Thursday 4th May at 18:21 we crossed the Russian-Chinese border into the province of Inner Mongolia. From the freezing, windy, dusty town of Zabaikalsk to the freezing, windy town of Manzhouli. There’s a huge gate-like building going […]

Posted on May 8, 2017January 7, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in China, News, Round the world, RussiaTagged border, china, food, russia, vegetarian5 Comments

Ulan-Ude

“Ude is river, that runs through town. Ulan is Buryat word for red, like blood. Ulan-Ude, it means blood river.” These are the words of the local man who shared our train compartment for the journey into Ulan-Ude. He had […]

Posted on May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, RussiaTagged city, memorial, river, russia, temple13 Comments

The beautiful Lake Baikal

Baikalsk is a town of about 12,000 people. Mainly young and old we were told. Until 3 years ago the pulp and paper mill which covered 2 square kilometres employed around 3000 workers. Good for the people as they had […]

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, RussiaTagged couchsurfing, environment, lake, medicine, river, russia8 Comments

The most popular stop on the trans-siberian

We pretty much had just over 24 hours in Irkutsk. Originally we had planned to stay several nights so we could visit Lake Baikal and use Irkutsk as a base. However, the joy of using couchsurfing in Russia (it’s super […]

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, RussiaTagged buryat, couchsurfing, food, police, russia2 Comments

Living that Ново life

As our train approached Novosibirsk, capital city of Siberia, several cargo trucks passed stamped with the label ‘Hово’. I excitedly wondered aloud if this was potentially the source of the term ‘Hobo’ which refers to travelling workers who are often […]

Posted on April 27, 2017March 28, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, RussiaTagged museum, night, russia5 Comments

“Neither Europe, nor Asia”

  It was a rocky start to our stay in Yekaterinburg. After feeling uncomfortable staying, we decided to leave our couch surfer after 11pm and head into the city centre to find a hostel. We got the last metro on […]

Posted on April 24, 2017April 27, 2017 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, RussiaTagged church, hostel, memorial, pollution, russia2 Comments

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From March 2017 to March 2018 we backpacked around the world without catching a single aeroplane. This blog contains our experiences and stories, from surprises to delights, plus some tips on how we travelled flight-free.

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