Yes, this photo is not very interesting, I know. But it brings back memories. Not of the brewery itself, Because I never went! I was staying at a hostel in Dublin and was so wrecked from a night of drinking I didn't make my planned trip to the brewery. Instead, I gave my camera to …
Ahhh yes I’m taking you Central Asia today for today’s train journey. The journey northward from Kazakhstan’s cultural capital Almaty to the somewhat Russian Semey in the north is certainly a long one, and although a good portion of it is overnight, it’s still rather a special time to spend on the rails. An …
Continue reading Train Journeys – Almaty to Semey (Kazakhstan)
I had this down to do a spotlight a few weeks ago, and then I… dunno… changed my mind? Oh that’s right I went with St Petersburg. Well, today I am going full on for Tallinn because I have to tell you, it’s a really brilliant little city. Yes, little it is, but worthy …
So off with a bang! Thai Airways had me coasting through the clouds overnight. I remember the flight distinctively. Left at 1am, dinner a couple of hours later. Lights off for three hours and then lights on again and a movie – Sleepless in Seattle. Irony appreciated. Then breakfast and touchdown at just after 6am …
Continue reading Trip of a Lifetime Part Two – Thailand and seeing how it all worked
To coincide with the Edinburgh Fringe being the topic of the latest podcast, here is a pic I took back in 1999 on film, one of the many photos I've been scanning in of late.Edinburgh really is a very impressive place! And, in July 1999, about 12 degrees every day as a maximum! Brrrr!
Most of the train journeys I have written about so far have been longish journeys, overnighters, epic stories of survival (ok that’s an exaggeration) but not all worthwhile train journeys in the world are like that, in fact some are quite short. Take the seven-kilometre toy train journey from Darjeeling as a prime example. It’s …
Some places you go, you just enter and BANG! You are in love. When people go to Japan, I think it’s no big deal to skip Tokyo, or not to worry too much about Osaka, but you simply have to go to the place that won my heart in less than one of its beats …
I’ve been lucky enough to have in the last fifteen years probably three ‘trips of a lifetime’ as well as several awesome shorter trips intermingled between them. Today I take you back to my very first trip (solo) which took place in 1999. How did it come about? Well, I finished high school in 1993 …
So folks, for the last one for now in my series of gateway countries, I’m heading to East Europe to a place that so many people are going these days, the Czech Republic. I could have named a few countries I liked more than the Czech Republic, and I was on the cusp of …
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This picture is from the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. The Ossuary is decorated with human bones making it pretty gosh darned unique!
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
A Scottish island girl exploring the world on a budget
exposing the inner-world of my brain
My second blog page
Put pictures on your travel dreams
The beautiful picture of angels makes you happy.
inspiring journeys and friendly advice
Andy's World Journeys 