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September, 2007

an unexpected blog from the Gobi

Well, I know I said we would be without internet for the duration of this trip but I was wrong and so for those of you still checking the site here is a little blog just for you.
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So, we left Ulaanbaatar not so early in the morning and headed south into the Gobi desert. At […]

Intermission

This is a silent announcement to say that Tom, Noah and I have decided to take a 25 day trip around Mongolia and so will be without internet access for the duration. Michael, I don’t know what you will do, I’m sorry for that. For those concerned we safely made it out of Russia with the […]

trains mostly

Since the last blog, we have traveled to Irkutsk, via Moscow and a number of other places. Moscow and St. Petersburg were both great cities in their own ways but I’ll let Tom tell you about them (he says he really is going to write). Lots of lovely culture - I wouldn’t like to say […]

Welcome to the Motherland

We are now in Russia. I told you we would be. Not much happened on the train, my battery ran out and I replaced it, nothing more. So, at 3 this afternoon we got to St. Petersburg. We haven’t really done all that much here but decided to get a drink tonight. Well, beer is […]

Yet more from Helsinki

You may be wondering why we’re back in Helsinki, it’s because we took a ferry here. Stockholm is a really nice city, probably, we didn’t really see much of it. When we got there we met up again with Linn from the north, as in her name’s Linn and she’s from the north, not like […]