Leaving Hong Kong
It's finally here. Moving day. We haven't slept well all week. As you probably know when moving house, no matter ...
7 Years, erm, 5 Days in Tibet
Queues don’t exist in Tibet. Zak, Rachel and I are in the middle of a crowd of jostling nomads from ...
Jiayuguan: He Says, She Says
We took a 1-day tour of Jiayuguan (Gee-Uh-You-Gwon), the town at the westernmost end of The Great Wall. It was ...
Lunar New Year in Mongolia
I’ve just been handed a large drinking bowl of white liquid, and there are ten pairs of eyes fixated on ...
First Class on the Trans-Siberian Train
48 hours on the train across Russia from Irkutsk in Siberia, to Yekaterinburg right on the border of Asia and ...
Tallinn, Estonia: OMG, It’s So Cute!
And just like that, we enter the European Union! After our four days in St. Petersburg, we took an 8-hour ...