A full time engineer, a part time blogger and a lifelong tourist
0835: Arrived at St Petersburg station, after the Grand Express sleeper train from Moscow. Olga, our guide from 2 days ago, came to pick us
0730: We were awoken by the gentle rocking of the Grand Express as is rushed past the suburbs of Moscow. The train guard brought us
This post is about Day 2 of our whirlwind tour of Russia. Read about Day 1, where we boarded the ferry from Helsinki to St
In my previous post, I told you about our whirlwind 72 hour trip to Russia. In this series of posts, I’ll be taking you through
“Are you sure it’s legal?” Is a question I got from a lot of people when I said I was going to Russia without a
For many visitors to Tallinn, the fairy tale old town is the main attraction. But if you have more than a couple of days in
We visited Tallinn in December 2016, so this post has been 18 months in the making. We spent 4 days in Tallinn and got the
“Bit like driving on the moon this, isn’t it?” said my husband. Although neither of us have been to the moon, I had to agree. We
Our recent road trip to Scotland took us to some of the most beautiful parts of the British Isles: Lochness, the Isle of Skye and
When I visited Krakow briefly early this year, I wanted to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Wieliczka Salt Mine, but I only had one day to
In the previous couple of weeks, I looked at how best to visit China for the first time, and a one week itinerary. In this,
When I told people my first trip to China is only for week, they all asked the same thing. Is one week really enough to
Before my first visit to China last year, I did a lot of research. In this series of posts, I hope to share what I
It was our last day in China and we were approaching the end of our express trip across Beijing (Days 1, 2, 3), Xian (Days
