This blog is well behind. I wrote the first half about a week after I returned but couldn't find a good way to finish. I still don't think it finishes well, but I am feeling the need to blog again. Russia was on the list of places to visit when I decided to do the UK thing. It's tricky to visit on a regular Euro backpacking trip as you need an (expensive) visa with specific entry and exit dates, which is exactly the type of structure I like to avoid when on the ...

Howdy all, I've been in London for almost a fortnight now. I as yet don't have a job (in the works) or a place to live (scouring the net as we speak), but more importantly, I have planned my major travelling movements for the next couple of years. So far the plan is to get a six month contract to do some sort of Engineering work London and then either extend it for another six months, or maybe go somewhere else, possibly Edinburgh over the summer. Between tho...

Well that's this trip done and dusted. The last week or so I travelled up through the Baltics. For the geographically impaired out there the Baltics are the three tiny countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia that are sandwiched by the frigid Baltic Sea and big Red Russia. It probably wasn't the best time of year to visit this little segment of the world. Winter has definitely come early and we were treated with sub-zero temperatures at night and whenever we hea...

If you've all been wondering why I've been so quiet lately, it's cause I don't really have that much to say. The last fortnight I've visited Munich, Salzburg, Prague and Krakow. Now that might not mean much for the casual viewer, but my hardcore fans (Hi Mum) will recognise that I visited all those places last year.It's been pretty fun going back to these places - I enjoyed all of them last year so was more than happy to see them again, especially in the case of ...

I don't know who I was kidding when I was planning this trip, but I'm pretty sure three months of travelling is barely enough. I had booked a flight today to London to begin the big search for work. Unfortunately I've decided reality isn't my thing these days, so I'm now on a train to Prague to meet up with Hedgy and Arun, a coupla guys from Tassie I met up with in Berlin to head through Poland and the Baltic countries. You would have thought that after last yea...