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Novosibirsk to Kazan on Trans Siberia Express

The Novosibirsk station is cavernous. Truly enormous in all dimensions. But, we’d arrived with plenty of time to be able to find our train/carriage/cabin. Immediately we noticed that…

Port Baikal – Circum-Baikal Terminus

Our night here was mostly out of necessity, as we caught the amazing Circum-Baikal Railway, which arrives in Port Baikal after the last ferry out of town has…

Khabarovsk to Slyudyanka on Trans Siberia Express

This was to be our biggest stint on the train, totalling approximately 60 hours, 4000kms and three different time zones. Unfortunately, since we had problems booking our tickets,…

Flying High and Silent above Cappadocia!

Urgh… It was a 4:20AM pickup this morning – there have been too many of these early starts on this holiday! As we stood around in the cold…

Day 176 – Adventures in Sydney #4 – Melbourne Cup… In Sydney

We had grand plans to head in to town early to see a museum (Powerhouse), but the opportunity to sleep in was too hard resist. As we were…

Day 130 – Nullabor(e) Plain

Today was going to be a day for us to put in some serious driving time, to try and catch up some of the time we lost while…

Day 106 – Chocolate, Beer and Wine Make Margaret River Fine

Woken by giant raindrops dripping onto the car from the canopy of the trees above. We arrived late last night, so we didn’t get a chance to look…

Day 84 – Welcome to The Pilbara

First thing on the agenda was to get to Port Hedland and get the alternator bearings repaired. We’d camped about 80km from town, so it was about 9AM…

Day 81 – Broome

It’s been a location that the two of us have been looking forward to for some time now. We had our first tease of the West Coast yesterday,…

Day 80 – Finally On The West Coast

It’s been a long time coming (80 days, but who’s counting…), and we finally made it to the western coast of Australia. It was a short push from…