I mentioned in an earlier post how in my ‘other-life’ (my ‘big-girl-job’, or, how I work to earn money to be promptly spent on travel…), that I am a teacher. Specifically, I teach band to middle schoolers. When I got my degree, I was firmly in the ‘I’d like to teach the little kids. K-3 […]
Crazy Russian Drivers and a Brown Bear
It was the end of a super long, very frustrating day. I’d done more backtracking than I ever wanted to do. I’d missed out on a stunning train journey and I’d taken the same train route three times. Instead of crowding into a tiny mini bus and making the trek to the resort town of Listvyanka on […]
Orvieto – Hilltop Italian Towns
The first travel blogger I took seriously was Rick Steeves. He was my constant companion on my first backpacking trip to Europe. I vowed to search out the hidden, Europe-through-the-back-door travel moments, and by and large, it’s been a fantastic success. I’ve had many of those incredible travel moments when you find beautiful gems, sometimes […]
Packing Tips for the TransSiberian Train Journey
Learn from my experiences! The TransSiberian train journey is an experience of a lifetime. As a result, many of those who get to experience it, may only do it once. Here are a few items to toss into your bag to make your experience much more pleasant. 1. Backup Battery Power While most of the […]
When Travel Isn’t Perfect
You’ve all seen the ideal images of stunning landscapes, perfect beaches, maybe a few laughing locals. While it is possible, and even likely, depending on your own personal flexibility and expectations, to have excellent trips, it is probably 100% likely that you will make mistakes, and things won’t go the way you’ve planned. The trick […]
The Time I Accidently-but-had-to Travel in Russia’s Platzcart Train Class
While traveling in Russia’s third class compartment is not usually recommended to foreigners, it definitely is an experience. Full of locals, extremely inexpensive, and almost never sold out, it can give another option to those that need it. Sometimes, especially if you’re traveling as a solo female, it can even provide a degree of safety, […]
The TransSiberian Train Journey
Picture, if you will, a train journey lasting some 147 hours (just over 6 full days). A journey spanning 7 time zones, some 7826 kilometres and one mass over country. While it would be certainly very interesting to take the train across the country and enjoy the week on the train, there are so many […]
How to Plan a TransSiberian Journey
The very notion that people would seek to travel (purposefully) to Siberia is something very new. Russia’s newfound ‘tourism industry’ is forming, and while Moscow and St Peterburg are indeed very open and essentially ready to receive tourists, once you leave Moscow, information becomes a little less available. Like probably most of the people visiting […]
Belarus? Why are you traveling to Belarus?!
This is the most common question I heard when people found out I was venturing to the (ex?) Soviet Country. It bears striking similarities to its neighbor Russia, including a very complicated and time-consuming (for most countries) visa process, a common language (though Belarusian is the official language, most locals use Russian on a daily […]
8 Things to do in Belarus Outside of Minsk
If people know anything about Belarus, they probably know about Minsk. They might know that it’s the capital, they might know something about its complex past, and they might know that it is, in fact, a separate country from Moscow (though the two share many mutual benefits of a close friendship). But Minsk is where […]
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