The next leg of my Trans-Mongolian Trip... Moscow to Vladmir. Today would mark the 'official' start of my train trip through Siberia although the 11 hour train ride from St. Petersburg to Moscow could be claimed as the starting point. As the world's longest journey by train, many know it as Trans-Siberian but since I'd be travelling through Mongolia with a…

So after an interesting night train which started out my Trans-Mongolian trip from St. Petersburg, a friend and I arrived in Moscow around 8AM. The train we took was a hard sleeper carriage which means the entire train has open area beds with the main ones stacked three high and the ones along the wall having two. I actually slept quite…

So I finally make it to Russia and about to embark on my Trans-Mongolian trip. It was a crazy flight too as I didn't get in till 11PM to St. Petersburg leaving from Stockholm. I was glad to have finally arrived though especially since it was so difficult to initially get a tourist visa into the country.  I can remember back…

So having always wanted to visit Scandinavia I decided to spend 3 days in Stockholm however I had put off going there on this trip because I knew how expensive it is to travel in these countries. That was of course until I realized how cheap I could fly there from Berlin with RyanAir. A mere $24 Euro which equates to…

Day 6 on the Ring Road, Iceland....If you may remember from my first couple posts on Iceland, we were given a 10 list challenge to complete on our road trip along the Ring Road that was handed to us by our Canadian friends in Reykjavik. These 'challenges' were miraculously thought up at the bar over some drinks, so as you can…

Day 5 on the Ring Road Iceland...Today would be our last for the ring road trip. We needed to head back to Reykjavik from Akureyri for our flights the following morning and we had quite a drive ahead of us too coming from Northern Iceland but with no major planned stops along the way. Hopefully, it wouldn't take too long, maybe…