Chillin’ in Pyin Oo Lwin

Greetings from Mandalay! Well it's been a great three days since I last posted and as you can imagine a lot has happened since then. I'm in Myanmar now for starters. And I have to say I love it so far. I've found the people warm and friendly and apart from the accommodation everything is …

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Trip of a Lifetime – Stockholm, Sweden and a Wedding!

Back to my ‘trip of a lifetime’ – I just need to say that I won’t be able to get this series done before I leave for my trip to Thailand and Myanmar, which begins this coming Saturday. I was hoping to, but sadly I have just been too busy in the last month taking …

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Trip of a Lifetime – Prague and the Czech Republic

Ahhh Prague – How I remember thee in 1999! It really was an awesome 5 days, even if I can’t remember all of it or even half of it! I took an overnight train from Amsterdam to Dresden. I was very happy that I paid an extra 40 bucks or so to upgrade to a …

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Train Journeys – Oslo to Bergen (Norway)

Some train journeys are memorable for the people, the activity, the engine, the atmosphere. Some just to say you did them, but some are memorable because of the view, the location, and one of Scandinavia’s best journeys is memorable for just that. From Norway’s capital, Oslo, travelling westwards to the coastal town of Bergen (a …

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Train Journeys – Nha Trang to Hue

  If I have a main regret about my time in Vietnam, it’s probably that I didn’t spend as much time on the rails as I could have. Yes, there was the toy train at Da Lat which I’ve mentioned before and deserves a ‘train journeys’ of its own one day (And I’d say will …

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Train Journeys – Guilin to Shanghai

Everywhere I go, as you might have gathered, if I can take a train or two, I do. I took a couple in China, both over-nighters, and the most memorable was the one from Guilin to Shanghai. Leaving Guilin in the evening, and not arriving until mid-afternoon in Shanghai, I went the soft sleeper which …

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Train Journeys – Cairo to Aswan (Egypt)

There’s no doubt that Egypt is a stunning and unforgettable place to travel. With such large distances between places, and little but desert between them, apart from flying trains are probably the best way to get around. It was 1999 when I went to Egypt, and the country was a lot happier than it can …

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