Gideon’s view in Edinburgh – Calton Hill Gideon’s view in Edinburgh Monday, 28th of May 2007 The last day is always a weird day when travelling. It’s often a day you just have to get through before you are off to catch your flight or train. But in stead of waiting (her train goes at [...]

Edinburgh Castle It took her about 2 minutes to feel at home in Edinburgh.

Postcard from Edinburgh Dear readers, We know that this postcard will arrive when we are already back home in London, but it is the thought that counts isn’t it? Edinburgh is a lovely lovely city, and there is so much to see! The castle is amazing, the large hill (which is an extinct volcano!) in [...]

On route with the flying Scotsman The flying Dutchman with a Scotsman in a Flying Scotsman train. This trip couldn’t go wrong. If you don’t want to read about Edinburgh, come back somewhere at the end of the week. If you do – it’s going to be a trilogy in 4 parts. Please step in.

In case you were wondering why it is so quiet over here – well I am in the process of falling in love with Edinburgh. I’ll be back in London tomorrow with more about this lovely city, men in kilts, taxi drivers which voicilicious accents, lots of pictures, a new addition to my “Bill posters [...]

West 34th street, New York The pirate and me are off to the Netherlands for a couple of days, for family visits and some relaxing days. Believe it or not we desperately need it after a crazy couple of weeks. We will be back in London on Monday, back here on Tuesday, the 8th of [...]

After an evening at the Russian Border (passport control took 4 hours!) and the Mongolian border (passport control took 1.5 hours) we entered Mongolia. While enjoying a good night sleep, after yesterdays , we were brutally woken up at 7.30 am in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia’s capital. While having lived in luxury the last 5 days (2 [...]

The Great Wall of China – this is a great wall

2nd of March 2007 – 4th night on the Trans Mongolian train “Are you asleep?” ~Gina “I have pretended to be dead since 1 am, but I am still alive, still awake.” ~Lawrence I had pretended to be dead since 1 am, but at 2.36am in the night I was still alive, still awake. I [...]

The Trans Mongolian train on the top of the world The Trans Mongolian train in the morning sun on the top of the world in Mongolia a day like this a day my thoughts all wander off a day my brain refusing work just wants to be back on that train

Love, New York New York, 55th Street

Trans Mongolian train If you want to get an impression of what my train castle looked like, please step inside.

Moscow Yaroslawsky trainstation Moscow, 27th February 2007 – Yaroslawsky station And then you are standing there and think : What could be the train to Beijing? This wasn’t the most fun day of the trip, but I think I’ve found my train, thanks to someone writing Beijing/Peking in Cyrillic on a piece of paper. Now [...]

Love Actually Mockba, 26 February 2007 My hotel is located in one of Moscow’s suburbs in the South East. It’s cheap and it takes about 20 minutes by metro to the Red Square and Leninski. Absolutely doable especially because the Metro station is about 50 meters from my hotel. I had done some research on [...]

New York – break dance – Central Park She walked all the way from the market on Union Square (14th) until the edges of Central Park that day. It felt good, and because New York was melting for her with lots of sunshine it gave her a feeling of spring. Both on the outside of [...]

Don’t worry I won’t write that much about the play and Nighy, my review of The Vertical Hour from December still stands.

Written in the plane from Beijing to London: OK, OK I don’t get it, people who think flying is a drag. I am sitting here with a cup of tea, the Milky Way (that has been ages ago!), a KitKat and a piece of chocolate cake, laughing my ears off watching the brilliant Meryl Streep [...]

Beijing is again a complete different world. The people are very very friendly, and here I feel safe walking around in the city with my camera. I have been in the Forbidden City and saw the Lama temple (including their 15 meter high Buddha statue) and it was both beautiful. Even the supermarkets are interesting. [...]

I am in China! Wooohooo! Moscow was harsh in many ways, and I didn’t feel too sorry to leave it. I found my train, woohoo! for that and thanks so much for all the crossed fingers – it helped!, and I will write more about all my up front worries later. But I entered my [...]

will she actually make it to get on that train? Well good question, I am not entirely sure at the moment.