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:

  • BRATISLAVA – SLOVAKIA

    After a few days in Vienna, it was time to get back on the rails, and head to my next destination. The next stop was to be Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, but to get there was going to take 2 days and 2 nights of train travel – so I decided to stop off…

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  • 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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