Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category

Book Launch at The Tabernacle

Friday, March 20th, 2009

At one moment I looked out to over one hundred people smiling back at me as they crammed into the Tabernacle building in Machynlleth, to join me to celebrate.  This was the culmination of a large part of the last four years of my life.  From the planning, the journey and the writing about it.  It has been truly life changing!  So many people have helped me along the way, and this was my chance to thank some of them.

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Bees, Bushfires, a Baby and Beautiful People

Friday, January 26th, 2007

(and also more information about my journey, the why’s, hows etc. for those who have asked)

The highlights from a few days in Adelaide were sleeping a lot and playing the accordion I spotted on the shelf in Wilsons organic food shop! What a treat, but I had forgotten a few tunes already! I couldn’t get a bus to Alice Springs until 27th January so it was more WWOOFing for me. (more…)

004 Trans-Mongolian Express 8th Sept – 10th Sept

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

The time has gone all funny now! The train runs on Moscow time so we stick to that but now we are going to +5hours in Irkutsk so it is midnight on our watches but getting light. Spend a wierd day not knowing whether to sleep or eat so don’t do much of either! I wake up to see Lake Baikal at dawn, so lovely, lot of canoes of people fishing. (more…)