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Category Archives: around-the-world-part-1

Balls-Up Number One

by tom on 11/10/2012

I’m currently in Warsaw. I should be somewhere between Warsaw and Kiev right now, on an overnight sleeper train that I arranged to go on some time ago. Unfortunately I didn’t read the ticket properly and turned up at the wrong station for my departure. The result was that I couldn’t see my train on […]

I’m in Poland!

by tom on 08/10/2012

The is my first proper post since setting off from London a few days ago. The trip to Berlin went without problems, despite a 25-minute changeover in Brussels being reduced to 18 minutes due to a delay entering the channel tunnel. I spoke to my first fellow traveller on the train from Cologne to Berlin, […]

Not Long Now!

by tom on 01/10/2012

This is the last week before I depart. For the purposes of processing visas, I have planned entry and exit dates and tickets for up until Hanoi, early next year. For everything else apart from Europe and Russia, everything else will be planned en-route. This week the jobs include getting a doctor’s appointment and getting […]

The Complete List of Vaccinations

by tom on 25/09/2012

Having got my last set of vaccinations done today, I thought I’d put a complete list of them up. So far I have had: Hepatitis A Typhoid Diphtheria/Tetanus/Polio Hepatitis B Rabies Japanese Encephalitis. Over the next few days I will be investigating: anti-Malarials whether I need MMR. The total number of injections so far is […]