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I’ve uploaded the final set of photos from the last part of my trip and named them over the past few days. You can view these on my photo page.

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 on the trip [...]

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.
Best [...]

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 from [...]

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 don’t have time to write much tonight, but I should at least begin writing some more content. We left Beijing early on the 4th March. First we actually headed south, but mostly west through beautiful mountains to the West of Beijing, unfortunately I was tired so I took a nap – though I should [...]

Very briefly as I only have a few minutes left online, but I’ve arrived into Moscow this afternoon on the train. To summerize there are lots and lots and lots of trees on the way. Lets just say the highlight of one day was seeing the Europe-Asia obelisk by the railway. There were some cool [...]

Early tomorrow morning I’m off on the Trans Siberian railway train to spending a few days in Moscow and St Petersburg before I return to the UK in a couple of weeks.
As I’m going to be very busy squeezing everything into only a few days I’m not going to be posting any more blog posts [...]

I arrived into Beijing on the train from Xi’an at 6am 10am before I made my way to my hotel where i’m staying in Beijing with my dad. After arriving by taxi I headed to a nearby coffee shop to have a fairly overpriced late breakfast while they got our room ready. After checking into [...]

A joke that is often made about Japanese is that they don’t have a word for no but just say hai in an uncertain manner. They actually do though: ie (pronounced ee e).
Now one of the very few things I’ve learnt with my very limited Chinese* is that the Chinese actually *don’t* really have a [...]