Vodka-what? ...VodkaTrain!

Heading for Asia? ...Forget Thailand for now.

Instead travel where very few have. Hop on board the VodkaTrain Trans Mongolia Railway or The Silk Road and India route. Which ever you choose, you'll be left speechless, I'm sure. They've already been listed as one of "the 10 best adventures of a life time" by The Times Online.

What better way could you possibly travel from St.Petersburg to Beijing, like really? Overland by train, you'll see parts of  countries which are unspoilt, untouched and really quite astonishing. VodkaTrain have routes through Russia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and India so you get to see as much of Asia as physically possible and the best prices. There are no tour guides. Just 'Honcho's - friendly faces in each city'. So you get to see the best bits, not just the usual tourist blag. 

One thing is for sure, VodkaTrain is on my To-Do list. 

Next year my dear, next year.

http://www.vodkatrain.com/

Inter-rail

Paris to Crete and everywhere in between.

This was the first ever, REAL travelling experience. Prior to this trip, I'd only ever been abroad with my parents and when I say abroad, I mean the ultimate package holiday kinda experience. My mother's extremely high maintenance despite what she likes to think. Unlike me, she could never swap her suitcase for a backpack...let alone leave her hair dryer behind. She would most definitely not jump on a train a few minutes before it's about to depart and journey to a tiny town she'd never even heard of (Ventimiglia...it was a very interesting 24hrs to say the least). It's safe to say I've inherited my fathers inquisitiveness and sense of adventure...THANK GOD. 

Any way, I just wanted to show the route which introduced me to the cosmopolitan continent of Europe. The real Europe. Not just the 4/5*AI hotel resorts by the beaches of the Med, where which my mother can stay for two weeks religiously every year, but rather the culture soaked cities and the most picturesque sparsely populated countryside throughout France, Italy and Greece.

Yes I did run out of money. Yes I was supposed fly home from Kavala. Yet I actually flew home from Heraklion and yes I did come home early. Why? ...I ran out of £££'s.

Would I change it for the world? ...Not at all.