The Trans Siberian Railway

Before Russia made some very poor decisions we ventured across this incredible continent. We have completed 6306 km of our 8017 km journey on the Trans-Mongolian train from Moscow to Beijing. Now we are in Ulan Baatar in Mongolia but thought we would give a little insight to the people in Russia and what the […]

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Japan

Our last stop, our last culture, our last language. The 8th country in a row not using an English alphabet. Our last challenge before returning to New Zealand. We were feeling well worn from the previous three weeks of non-stop country hopping – really making the most of our final days. We arrived in Osaka in […]

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Iceland in winter

Whoever first said that “Greenland is ice and Iceland is green” obviously hadn’t been to Iceland at this time of year…there was plenty of ice and the bits of green we saw were mostly mosses growing near the warm geothermal vents. Despite this, or indeed because of this, Iceland was beautiful!!! We hired a car […]

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East Africa

Dragoman Overland Encounter – Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Wow! What an incredible journey around East Africa! 19 of us from the UK, Canada, NZ and 1 US (plus our Kiwi driver Blair) spent 21 days in a Dragoman Encounter truck. The truck is fully equipped and as long as we were stocked up on food, […]

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Bolivia

…take an old sardine can, glue on some wheels, sellotape an old partially functional gearbox underneath, add two engines – one of which should be loosely connected to the gear box – the other through an error in the laws on physics should be placed in a locker considerably smaller than the engine itself. Tie […]

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New York City

The train from Niagara to New York was a long but beautiful one heading south along the Hudson River and it was wonderful to be back in Greenwood Lake again. The summer weather was on holiday that week, but that allowed for lots of relaxing and catching up with Amy, Joe and their family. The […]

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South Korea

What a lovely trip to Korea we have had. For Keryn it has been wonderful to be back and fun to show Logan around. For Logan it has been great to put some places and faces to names and experience some of what Korea has to offer. We have done some great hiking in Seoraksan […]

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