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15 mars 2010

A couple that were almost great...

Following my article on the best places we've stayed, here's another one about some hostels that didn't quite make it... Mingtown People's Square, Shanghai, China Being the hostel professionals that we now are, we've spent a lot of time over the last...

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Tags: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Pingyao, Mingtown People's Square, Wushanyi hostel, Yamen hostel, hostel

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10 mars 2010

Ten Top Places to Stay

It's our birthday! On the road for a whole year now! So to mark this milestone I've decided to think about considering perhaps writing some articles. Here's the first one, my favourite ten places we've stayed over the last twelve months. So, in no particular...

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Tags: Qingdao, Suzhou, Baikal, Miyajima, Guilin, Chengdu, Amritsar, Beijing, Big Brother, Leo Hostel, Mix, Mongolia, Wada, ger

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14 octobre 2009

Culinary Curiosities and Gastronomic Delights - Concerning Food

A major part of travelling in "strange" places is the opportunity to enjoy local food. In our modern, globalised world, we are used to eating in "international" restaurants; in Britain we think nothing of eating Chinese, Indian, Thai, Mexican, French...

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Tags: Chinese food, Japanese food, Korean Food, Strange food, cock testicle, cuisine, gastronomy, horse meat, pig brain, travel

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29 septembre 2009

6 months

Just a short message of apology to our English speaking readers... We've been travelling for over six months now, a big milestone reached. So far we've been to seven countries (although maybe some of our Chinese friends would claim that one of them doesn't...

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19 juin 2009

Unlaanbaatar

On the back-packing circuit, a number of stories tend to circulate and in the days before leaving Russia we began to hear one or two troubling anecdotes about the Mongolian captial. The first involved a tourist who had taken a taxi. The driver supposedly...

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9 juin 2009

Into Mongolia

We were in Russia for a little over two weeks. It is a fascinating country and our stay there was highly informative. Much that we saw was exactly as we had imagined; but we also saw a lot that challenged our preconceptions. I hope that at some point...

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21 avril 2009

Moscow to Irkutsk

It's now the 21st of April and we've been travelling for over a month. I don't know if anybody reads my entries but for any English-speaking readers we may have I think it's time I updated the blog a bit. I haven't written anything for two weeks or so...

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6 avril 2009

England to Moscow

In the end I haven't turned out to be quite the prolific blogger that I had thought. We've already been travelling for over three weeks and this is my first entry since before the start. We flew, as planned, to Tallinn in Estonia. We stayed in a small,...

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14 mars 2009

The Beginning

So. It's started. After two and half years of waiting and saving and preparing we've left France and now we're in England, waiting. We've left our friends, our jobs, the life that we've known since the end of our first adventure in Italy and now we're...

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Tags: beginning, departure, preparation, start

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