The Best Bits CLASSIC CLOTHES – in particular…coats, hats and boots! European women wear their intimidation with classic styling while Russian women just nonchalantly wrap themselves in it before putting their best boot forward and strutting their confidence. Note to self: I must buy some intimidation and confidence! FABULOUS FOOD Portion sizes are half the size of […]
Month: March 2014
Q&A: Siberian Sojourn
Seven Questions Only What did you expect to see? Gulags, frozen peasants and snow! Ok, so I needed an update since watching Dr Zhivago but isn’t that why we travel? What did you find? Not a gulag or peasant, frozen or otherwise, in sight! It’s a […]
Genghis Khan and other Fun Facts
Top travel tips for Mongolia… Genghis Khan – pronounced and written Chinghis Khan but born ‘Temujin’; founder and Great Khan of the Mongel Empire; born about 1162 and died August 1227; was buried in a secret place and 600 horseman rode all over that place to erase the exact spot… then all 600 were killed. Now […]
Lost In Translation
Nobody really knows what Bill Murray’s character whispers to Scarlet… At the end of the movie it is left up to the viewer to determine whether it is a beginning or an end, and I have always felt that the story up to that point was only a prequel to the real story. This is […]