Is it ever black and white? Life is different on a two day sleeper train in China. For a start our compartment companions were a well organised couple who had lots of excellent food in sensible containers and not much luggage. They didn’t speak English and we didn’t speak Mandarin (yet!) but we got on […]
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Riding with the sons of Genghis Khan – Theo’s blog (By the time this post is up, we should be finally heading to the Chinese border!) The prospect for our 2 day train trek across the Steppes of Kazakhstan was not looking so great. I’d been placed in a separate compartment from Shan and Rosa;
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In search of a camel We boarded our next sleeper train at Atyrau in Kazakhstan, bound for Almaty in the east, and I had just got comfortable in my window seat when I noticed something crawling on my leg. A small brown praying mantis, instantly named ‘Manti’ – we have no idea of gender but
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Being Here Now – Theo I haven’t been travelling as lightly as I’d like. Our rucksacks seem pretty sorted, and I’m proud of us for that, but I’ve still been bringing a load of expectations and assumptions with me over each border we’ve crossed, and I hope I’m beginning to shed some of that as
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‘Soften, and use little water.’ Before we left Konya we went to Rumi’s shrine…I wondered if it would be a meaningful experience, looking at a dead poets grave (one of the sacred sites of the world because he was after all a great Sufi poet and his Turkish name, Mevlana, means Master, but nevertheless a
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Theo’s blog – The best things in life are free. Today I had two sublime experiences which any traveller in Turkey who ventures beyond Istanbul or the holiday beaches can access, without spending a lira on anything but travel. Having taken a train through the endless folded hills and plains of “the Asian side”, which
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Çatalhöyük and the Whirling… There is so much to say about yesterday. I know that things I’m part of sink in quicker and a little deeper than experiences I have where I am mainly an observer, but my dream last night shows me that one of the two extraordinary experiences we had has reached a
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Departure from Platform 9 & 3/4’s I was working all through our final night at home, getting our house in order before our good friend Pete arrived at 6am to take us to Castle Cary station. So most of my 1st day of travel was spent groggily dosing on the Eurostar from Kings Cross St
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Why does Amsterdam feel so ‘right’? Rosa was musing, as we strolled along by one of the canals that criss-cross the city, ‘Amsterdam is a blend of fun and friendly and strange and seedy – which means you would never get bored here!’ There is so much to love about Amsterdam and it was a
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