Lewisham, United KingdomDeparture from the UKBremen, GermanySchuelpBack to BremenChristmas in the HarzDriving in the HarzAround Bad Harzburg and Christmas Market in GoslarWinter Tourism im HarzAnd home againViennaNew Year'sSightseeing in Vienna Day 2More sightseeing in Vienna and some plansArrival in BudapestTickets Booked!Bath HouseTrain to LvivWe made it to Ukraine!Leaving LvivOdessa, UkraineEventful arrival in KievMorning in KievOn the train to MoscowBrief stop in MoscowOur first trip east of the KnownOn the train to Kazan - a lot to catch up onkazan - at an ungodly hour of the morningOn the train to YekaterinburgOne night until SiberiaSiberia!!!!! Tobolsk - it's not on Google Maps! It's 4 hours north of TyumenDay trains5 Hours from IrkutskSafe arrival in IrkutskLake BaikalBack to IrkutskGoodbye to BaikalAn Experience in Ulan-UdeCrossing the Border - Happy New Year and Australia DayPlans changing in HarbinEnchanted with BeijingBeijing WanderingsCrashingMore CrashingSam's almost better againSecond last day in BeijingLast day in BeijingTianjin, ChinaIncheon ArrivalSeoul!!!Exhausting full day of enjoying SeoulI still love SeoulRainy and grey in BusanUnvalentine's DayInfinite turtlesDry land againA Perfect EndCoolangatta International Airport, or lack thereofBrisbane, AustraliaMum and Dad's
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We're havin to change our plan quite extensively due to train difficulties, but we'll get home! At this point, we're going to have to cross the border into China by bus near Zabaikalsk and skip Vladivostok altogether. Will keep you informed as best we can.
Current plan:
Harz Mountains for Christmas
Vienna for New Year's
Budapest (at some point)
Lviv
Kiev
Odessa
Moscow
Vladimir
Kazan
Tobolsk
Tomsk
Irkutstk (and Listvyanka, Slyudlyanka - Lake Baikal)
Vladivostok
Harbin
Beijing (Great Wall, Inner Mongolia and Hohhot)
Qingdao (for the ferry)
Seoul
Pusan
Shimonoseki
Osaka
Gold Coast
Brisbane!
Current plan:
Harz Mountains for Christmas
Vienna for New Year's
Budapest (at some point)
Lviv
Kiev
Odessa
Moscow
Vladimir
Kazan
Tobolsk
Tomsk
Irkutstk (and Listvyanka, Slyudlyanka - Lake Baikal)
Vladivostok
Harbin
Beijing (Great Wall, Inner Mongolia and Hohhot)
Qingdao (for the ferry)
Seoul
Pusan
Shimonoseki
Osaka
Gold Coast
Brisbane!
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Rio Reiser
Written by Chris N 54 months ago
Good work getting this set up you two. Keep the photos coming, and I look forward to some stories being recorded that border on travel literature masterpieces! Guten Rutsch, and bon voyage to the other side of the curtain ;-)
Rowan Macaulay Samford Australia
Written by sfhw35 52 months ago
This comment was modified by sfhw35 52 months ago
Leonie's daily updates on the fascinating journey shared with Sam for the past 9 weeks from London and (soon to be completed) to the Gold Coast Australia have been extremely enjoyable. Her quite detailed blogs, coupled with photos have allowed the reader to almost feel the "Zhivagoian" ice and cold of the Siberian countryside in the middle of winter, smell the vodka on the breaths of accompanying passengers in their third class train carriage journey across Russia and finally experience the various challenges of language barriers and simple execises of buying train tickets and arranging hostel accomodation in foreign lands.This will be a journey they will never forget and thanks to Trip Tracker they will always have a documentary piece to treasure.Well done Trip Tracker! Well done Leonie and Sam!