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Following on from Stonehenge, and high up on the list of places that I deeply regretted missing from our Euro Road Trip, I was back in Wales. I’ve…
It came as a surprise when we crossed into Slovakia, Country #24, as we thought we still had much further to drive before the border. The road slowly…
We had spent the day watching the Tour de France run into the small town of Nuits-Saint-Georges. We’d also spent the day looking at vineyards that stretched in…
Day 71 Vitorchiano OK, not technically in Tuscany, but rather in Lazio, which is the Rome region. Still, we were driving north into Tuscany, so it gets filled…
Macomer Risa first visited Sardinia nearly 10-years ago. She had a Sardinian friend, and was invited to visit and stay with his parents, Aldo and Anna-Maria. When she…
Today we transitioned from the sunshine and warmth of Costa Brava, into the areas in northern Catalunya bordering the mountainous Pyrenees. Our first stop of the day was…
We were now only hours away from Moscow, but rather than rush to enter the metropolis, we made one last visit to rural Russia. It wasn’t the most…
The Novosibirsk station is cavernous. Truly enormous in all dimensions. But, we’d arrived with plenty of time to be able to find our train/carriage/cabin. Immediately we noticed that…
This leg was an entirely manageable 30hrs. Funny how your perspective shifts, normally the thought of being on a train for more than 24hrs would be an ordeal….
Our night here was mostly out of necessity, as we caught the amazing Circum-Baikal Railway, which arrives in Port Baikal after the last ferry out of town has…