Carrying on in Cambridge 

Somehow I am suddenly in the United Kingdom! Strange how you suddenly find yourself in a different country. Well not really but it's always a bizarre feeling. Just as I was getting used to Russia.  I'm AirBnB-ing it in London, but today I've taken a trip north to Cambridge, which is an incredibly beautiful town …

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Ekanterinburg. Yekanteringburg. However You Spell It!

Howdy all. Well, a whirlwind visit to a city to the east of the Ural mountains. And wind is appropriate, my goodness me it's been blowing like crazy since... well pretty much since I left China. But you really feel it when there's a bit of snow thrown in for good measure. I'm guessing it …

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Lake Baikal at Listvyanka

Howdy all fron Russia! Today I had the chance to take a day trip to Lake Baikal. I'm stay in the city of Irkutsk, which is 63km from the town of Listvyanka, so I hopped on a mini-bus today and made my way down to see the world's largest inland lake, which holds something like …

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