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I’m sorry, I sat down and finished all the content I needed to tonight, now going too fast rather than too slow :p. As there are five (other) new posts I’ve linked them all from this one so you can read them through in order. More on the Trans Siberian Saint Petersburg (part 2) Summary [...]

Note, I haven’t dealt with my photos yet, I’ll post when I’ve got them onto Flickr from the final part of my trip. I do have a few extra awards that only make sense on an overall position looking at the whole trip, these are below: Best country China, overall I think my favourite country [...]

This is the overall awards for the trip as a whole – the winners are taken from the best of the previous winners. There is also a post on a few extra awards categories I have these are here. Best site Iguazu, Argentina and Brazil it was great from so many angles, up close and [...]

I was always going to give some awards at the end of my trip and this is the award for the final third of the trip. As well as this I will follow this post with some overall awards which will include some additional awards as well. That post will follow this evening UK time. [...]

I will also be having some awards for the last 1/3 of my trip as well as some overall awards – these will follow this post tomorrow. The second day I was in Saint Petersburg I headed over to Peterhof by train, this train worked OK, but it did have the worlds dirtiest windows as [...]

I will also be having some awards for the last 1/3 of my trip as well as some overall awards – these will follow the second St Petersburg post. First I want to talk about some details I missed about the Trans Siberian. One thing that seemed to happen every night is that snow blew [...]

On Wednesday evening I made my way into St Petersburg and then took the metro for the one stop journey to my hostel. The journey was fairly uneventful except that it was much slower than necessary due to the train spending large parts of the trip travelling very slowly – so in that respect it [...]

We arrived into Moscow on Monday afternoon, arriving into a busy city was great. First we wanted to get to our hotel and as we had a fair bit of luggage we thought we’d get a taxi. Unfortunately aside from the dodgy guys who offer you a taxi on the platform itself there didn’t seem [...]

After a good nights sleep we awake to be crossing the Gobi Desert, this is a pretty large desert in the south of Mongolia, we saw quite a bit of wildlife including sheep and deer as well as some traditional Mongolain yurts – it was mostly just scrubland. However there did appear to mostly be [...]

I sent my MP an email on Monday over the chief medical officers plans to introduce minimum prices of £0.50 per unit of alcohol (US$0.70, €0.53) which has been rejected by Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister) and was pleasantly surprised to receive an acknowledgement in the post this morning. I’m impressed that he’s managed to [...]