Superstition is part of Scandinavian life, Icelanders changed the route of a major road so as not to upset eleves and the Norwegians have trolls.
Europe
Bergen By Ferry
Bergen, surrounded by fjords and mountains, is the second largest city in Norway.
Sognfjord in Summer
Day Trips on the Costa Blanca
There are coach day trips from Benidorm but its cheap and easy to take a bus or a tram. Continue reading
Viva Espania in Spring
Y Viva Espania may be an old song but I’ve always though Spain is an underrated holiday destination so I decided a cheap ten days in Benidorm was a good way to spend time in early May. Continue reading
Irkutsk, then Three More Days on a Train
We were driven the seventy kilometres back to Irkutsk from Lystvyanka for a tour of the centre. This city on the Angara river is famous because the Decembrists who revolted against Tsar Nicholas l in 1825 were exiled there.
Moscow to Yekaterinburg by Spagny Vagon
First impressions of our spagny vagon or first class carriage were good.
Through Siberia to Lake Baikal
Now we were travelling further into Siberia on the way to lake Baikal, the worlds deepest lake.
Yekaterinburg in the Urals
Eight hundred and eighty nine miles from Moscow Yekaterinburg is in the Urals on the border of Europe and Asia.
Trans Siberian from Moscow
A journey on the Trans Siberian Express is a once in a life time adventure.
It has to be, doing it once is crazy but you would have to be completely nuts to even contemplate doing it twice.