“The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors” – Melissandra – Game of Thrones A heinous man, not four feet tall, approaches the car. His long pointed noise, crooked and bent, sniffs the cool night air like a hungry wolf. Greasy long blond hair lies in knotted strands down his hunched back. Black beady eyes peer […]
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Crime and Punishment
Rather ironic, I suppose, that the day I ‘get arrested’ is the day I started reading Dostoevsky’s book. While in Rome and all that….. The corruptness of the Kazakhstan police is well known among people who travel here; particularly to those that are driving here. And so it was our time eventually came to have […]
Forgive me for I have sinned
Yesterday I broke one of the four wheel driving commandments: thou shalt not attempt to cross an obstacle without first performing an inspection. In short, we got stuck in the mud! My confession follows.
Russia/Mongolia Border Crossing
So we approached the town of Kyakhta that is the Russian border town. I don’t know if it’s the case that all Russian border towns are military bases too – but this one certainly is. It instantly puts the bejesus into us…..just don’t do anything wrong! So in army style here is the outline of […]
Service With(out) A Smile
Dotted along the main roads are service stations that mostly cater to long distance lorry drivers. The buildings themselves vary in size and grandeur but they all feature a massive forecourt for the enormous lorries that frequent them. They vary in quality but all serve food and drink and provide toilets. A few also have […]
Russia: Time-lapse movies
Since arriving in Russia, we’ve been driving in convoy with a Japanese couple we met on the ferry. Aside from making some new friends, it also gave us the chance to mount our camera on their car and make some time-lapse films. Neither of us were really sure what to expect, but they came out […]
Russia Stage 1: Vladivostok -> Khabarovsk Video
This time an edit of the videos we shot between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. I did most of the editing during my time in the passenger seat so between Clare’s driving and fighting to keep the laptop on my lap I’m not considering it my finest work!
Living the Eastern Dream
I should forwarn you that you won’t come away with any mystic Eastern insights on the meaning of life (You’ll need to read Herman Hesse or Kahil Gibran et al for that.) Merely, a small insight into life on board the Korean-run ferry ‘Eastern Dream’ that sails between Sakaiminato, Japan and Vladivostok, Russia, via Donghae, […]
Sayonara Japan!
The first week of our trip was also our last week of our 5 years spent living in Japan. So, it was a week full mostly of excitement, but also tinged with a bit of sadness that this will be the last we see of the place we’ve called home for the last 5 years. […]
Final practice – Nikkō
This weekend we got in our last practice camping mission before we set off for real in 2 weeks time! We went to Nikkō (日光) and spent a few days randomly driving around in the mountains. We also got to put in a few flights with our new toy, Brian. We bought him 2 weeks […]