This morning we explored Moscow by open top bus and were able to identify features that one misses the very first time such a journey is taken. We boarded this outside our hotel. It was interesting that the ice rink sponsored by the GUM Department Store was still in Red Square supported by something like …
The first leg of the journey was from Manchester to Moscow by air via Brussels. We departed at 06:15 on an airbus A320 which has been specially painted with imagery from three of the Belgian painter Rene Magritte’s iconic artworks. According to the inflight magazine the creation of the aircraft’s livery took almost a year. …
Our latest expedition sees us travelling by train along the Silk Road across Central Asia. This is our trusty guidebook and these are the first two of our train tickets for the journey along the Silk Road. The first part is from Moscow to Volgograd along what is known as ‘The rhubarb trail’. Along here …