After spending the last few days doing nothing but plan and organise train tickets, ferry bookings and visas, it looks like it’s finally coming together. I’ve just bought European train tickets, Russian train tickets and have confirmation of the ferry booking between Vladivostok and Donghae. One thing that they don’t tell you is that even […]

During this planning process, I’ve attempted to organise things in a slightly un-organised way. I now know how you should do it, but the rough approach has been as follows: plan route sketch-out visa requirements realise that passport will not leave enough time before expiry and re-apply wait for new passport to arrive attempt to […]

I’ve just been in touch with 2 travel companies and it’s not going to be possible (or at least it’s going to be very difficult) to get from Singapore to either Australia or New Zealand. There are no cargo ships from Singapore to Australia (at all!) and the only passenger ferry leaves in December (and […]

This is what I’m planning at the moment: St. Petersburg [2 days] Moscow [3 days] Perm [2 days] Tomsk [2 days] Irkutsk (Lake Baikal) [3 days] Khabarovsk [1 day] Vladivostok [N/A]. It’s taken a while to get to this point and this list is currently with the travel agents at Real Russia, who should be […]