Eastern Europe 2009

In 2009 I spent 3 months travelling through Asia and Eastern Europe.
In July 2009 I flew from Australia to Osaka.  I visited my friends in Japan and then took the ferry to Shanghai (a 49 hour trip).

I spent two weeks travelling around China.

• A Metropolis Infested With Foreign Adventurers
• Stone Monkey Gazing Over a Sea of Clouds
• Total Eclipse of the Terracotta Pandas
• Forbidden Kung Fu

 

Then I joined up with a tour group in Beijing.  It was a 3 week tour.  We took the Trans-Mongolian train to Mongolia and stayed in a ger camp.

• Mongolia

 

We took the train to Irkutsk in Russia.  Then we took the Trans-Siberian across Russia.  We visited Ekaterinburg, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

• Trans-Siberian Railway
• Moscow’s Diamonds Are Forever
• St. Petersburg

 

 

After the tour finished I travelled around Eastern Europe.

• Nice Guys Finnish Last (Finland)
• The Sword in the Estonia (Estonia)
• Looking For Lats in All the Wrong Places (Latvia)
• The Villains of Vilnius (Lithuania)
• Baltic Banquets (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
• From Melbourne to Minsk (Belarus)
• A Short History of Hostels in Ukrainian (Ukraine)
• The Country That Doesn’t Exist (Moldova/Transnistra)