Samarkand – Uzbekistan

Recent Trips:

Japan

Tokyo, Nikko, Matsuyama, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kanazawa

Northern Europe

Oslo, Gothenburg, Fredericia, Hamburg

Central/Southern Europe

Vienna, Chisinau, Tiraspol, Athens, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Vaduz, Geneva, Milan, Bergamo

LATEST POSTS:

  • VIENNA – AUSTRIA

    Despite being 3.5 hours late, my NightJet from Hamburg finally pulled into Vienna Hauptbahnhof, and I emerged a little weary, but excited for the next stop. The last time I was in Vienna was in 2012, and so I figured this would be an opportunity to see if the city had changed much at all.…

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  • FREDERICIA – DENMARK

    25/1/26 A short post here, for a little town I had a short break in! My route was taking my from Gothenburg all the way down to Vienna in one hit – the journey, however, was to be broken up into a number of different train trips: Gothenburg to Copenhagen; Copenhagen to Fredericia; Fredericia to…

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  • GOTHENBURG – SWEDEN

    23/1/26 – 25/1/26 I left Oslo at 10:15am, on a VR train bound for Gothenburg. As Sweden’s second city, and its major university centre, I was excited to see what kind of atmosphere it would have. The train ride took under 3 hours – the trains up in this part of the world are undeterred…

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  • OSLO – NORWAY

    21/1/26 – 23/1/26 It took a rather long time for me to reach Oslo, the capital of Norway – but after a short morning out in Manchester pre-flight, I was good to go. My SAS flight landed at Gardermoen Airport at a touch before 4pm – which, with January’s sunrise and sunset times, meant that…

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  • SINGAPORE – SINGAPORE

    8/10/25 A wonderful two weeks in Japan came to an end as I boarded a flight at Haneda airport bound for Singapore. I haven’t been to Singapore in a good few years (possibly a decade!), and I was curious to see how the city had changed on – an 8 hour daytime layover provided the…

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  • KANAZAWA – JAPAN

    5/10/25 – 7/10/25 Located on the western coast of Honshu, Kanazawa is home to a vast array Edo-era architecture and historical sites, giving it the moniker of Little Kyoto, and putting it high on my to-see list. We arrived in the afternoon, after a two-legged journey from Kyoto – the Thunderbird Express taking us to…

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