Trans'd Siberia Ni hao! We have finally made it to Beijing after the world's longest train journey (literally). In similar fashion this may be the world's longest blog posting! Once i finished writing the last blog entry last Monday we headed straight to the supermarket to stock up on the food and drink that would get us through the trip. At the time we assumed just different flavours of noodle would have enough variety for one week's cuisine. Perhaps not, as i...

Moscow Calling Priv-yet Commrades! I'm back to the same dodgy internet cafe a little sooner than I thought as I forgot to send a mail to the hostel company when I was here yesterday. Apparently the hostel we were meant to be staying at in Xi'an, China has suddenly closed so we need to choose an alternative. After leaving here yesterday we managed to successfully pick up our train tickets having been given only the sketchiest of directions and rather unsucce...

From Russia With Love! (take 2) It's been two and a bit days since we landed in Moscow and we have finally found an internet cafe (after much guide book bashing and a wild goose chase involving a phlegmatic dog - don't ask!) to upload our first on the road entry. I had actually gotten to the end of this entry, already having battled with the world's dodgiest keyboard only for our session to terminate and all of the text to be lost. This entry has come down to a ...

It's now two days before we set off on the biggest adventure of our lives and I'm feeling a little bit unprepared. I made the mistake of watching a rerun of Ewan McGregor's "Long Way Round" last night. I know he's a big Hollywood A-Lister (even I feel like a bit of a phoney backpacker since i can afford more than a 50p bed a night) but seriously they are travelling for 13 weeks and are bringing 4 support vehicles, 10 staff and more food and equipment th...