The closer it was to the departure… the less it caused in me. No significant excitation whatsoever. I felt the action, indeed, but mostly due to the number of things I had to do, like before every journey. But calmness was the thing that made this trip different from all the others I had done. …
Do you know the price you could fly 30.000+ km for? . . . Exactly €317! I was blowing my horn with this number on march 2016, as I had found an offer which had made my jaw hitting the floor. €317 was the tickets price for the Rome – Addis Ababa – Johannesburg, Durban …
We made it to the last stop of the first part of our trip. Irkuck. Man, is it raining here. A way worse than in Novosibirsk. We left the train – it’s raining. We went to check the tickets’ availability and other odds and ends, and when we were done, it was coming down even …
Novosibirsk, the unofficial capitol of Siberia welcomed us coldly. Literally. Temperature – 7 Celsius, humidity – 93%. It’s that kind of cold that penetrates you to the bones. However, we didn’t feel it at the beginning, as carrying all the luggage on our backs warmed us well, but evening showed us not to underestimate Siberia. …
Second day in the train. Today we crossed the border between continents, in Ekaterinburg. They said it was marked by an obelisk and I would see it from the train. I starred my eyes out for that, unsuccessful. Maybe I looked on the wrong side? Ekaterinburg welcomes us with cold. A small foretaste of what …
Internet ne rabotayet. I do the posts offline, at least until I fix the connectivit. Wsya Rossiya budyet rabotat Internet they said. They lied, mean people. Update. I lied. Without knowing that. Internet works, I just needed to reboot the tablet 😉 We’re still in the train and I must tell you, there’s nothing special here. …
Wheels are rattling, chug-tug, chug-tug… The first day of the trip is about to end, we are in the Transsib already. Train no. 44, Moscow Yaroslavskaya – Khabarovsk route. 14 carriages, 6 days of the ride. For us, luckily, only 3, we stop in Novosibirsk for a dozen of hours to stretch the legs and …
It’s only 4 days! Looking at the number of things I do recently I can’t believe I am able to do them. CD release, rehearsals, gym workouts, trip preparations, work, where I have to pass my duties for the whole month. During last days I wake up at 9 AM and go to sleep at …
Tickets purchased. At least some of them. The ones you can call a good start and that makes the point of no return crossed 😉 Warsaw – Moscow – Novosibirsk – Irkutsk – Moscow – Warsaw, these parts are ticketed. I will buy the Vladivostok – Irkutsk tickets before the trip, as this can be …
I have just heard a great news: Mongolian government had ceased the visa requirement for all the EU citizens for a test period: from 25th of June up until the end of the year. This means that I have one country less to deal with the entry bureaucracy and a bit € less to spend …
