Posts Tagged ‘Part’
Editor’s note: Travel writer George Dunford is sending us the occasional trip report from the road as he makes his way from Beijing to St Petersburg on the Trans-Mongolian train. This is his second trip report, catch up on his first post here.
China seems to be behind us as we pull into Erlian, to cross the border into Mongolia. Already we’ve seen the landscape growing drier and stations have lost their grim institutional look. (more…)
We’re not going to catch the train out of Beijing. Our first leg of the Trans-Mongolian train and the cab doesn’t seem to be going fast enough to get us to Beijing West Train Station. It’s about 10 minutes before departure and I’m trying to communicate with my scraps of Mandarin – and frantic pointing – that we need to go faster. The cab driver takes this has a critique of his music and switches from the hip hop station to some fluffy (more…)
Editor’s Note: Jane and Jodi didn’t set out to write blogs on similar subjects, but between them they’ve covered some of the world’s top mass-transit options. Read Jane’s original Lost Art of Mass Transiting picks in Melbourne, San Francisco & Prague; or dive into Jodi’s recommendations for Helsinki, Berlin, Paris and Sydney below.
Sometimes getting there is half the fun. I have wonderful memories (more…)
Mozart in Nazare, Portugal
This is the second part of an interview with Jeanne from SoulTravelers3. Read the first part here.
What are some of the challenges of travelling with a kid?
It is really best to travel slow with a kid or as a family, so some would call that a challenge, although we find it a benefit. Kids need time to play and self direct in between touring, scheduled events and museums. (more…)
Santiago de Compostela, August 2008.
Plenty of parents take their kids travelling. But how many parents go into early retirement, sell their home, and head out with their young child to travel the world, slowly and for as long as they can?
That’s precisely what Jeanne and her husband are doing with their daughter Mozart (her internet nickname). Since the middle of 2006, they have been travelling through Europe and (more…)
