Eastward Ho!

Well, tomorrow we head off toward China, equipped with visas, passports, heavy guidebooks and some confidence that we'll be able to navigate around once we get there. We take the train for the Baltic coast tomorrow and from there hop on a ferry to Helsinki (and onward to Tallinn, Estonia.) From Tallinn, we'll take the train to Moscow, where we'll stay for one night and get our train to Mongolia on 04 October. From there we need to figure out our way to China and beyond. Guess there will be a lot of time for reading on the train.



Will be lugging the computer along with us, so hopefully I'll be able to write more often. Till next time!

Visa bills

We are still in Gommern, Germany getting our visas in order to make the trans-Siberian trip to Asia, and to travel around Asia. It’s a pain and a lot of money – involving multiple trips to consulates in Berlin – but I assume it will all be worth it to cross Russia and Mongolia to China, and then visit places like Vietnam and Cambodia (all of which require visas!)

We are also excited to have my parents visiting. We spent a lovely week together exploring Gommern and the Harz. Now they are in Prague and will return for the weekend before they leave (from Berlin.)

For those who haven’t seen the blog lately, the next entry is a summary (or a bit more than a summary) of our summer bike trip, and the links to the full photo albums are on the left of this page. For those who have been keeping up (anyone? anyone?) I also just added some additional observations from the summer tour further down the page (dated August 20, after the next entry.) Enjoy!