My eyes flitted open this morning….where the hell am I? I thought to myself. I'm in the Azimut hotel in St Petersburg, Russia. How the hell did I get back here? Oh yeah, my big mouth. The events of the past week come flooding back to me and I get dressed and head down to breakfast. I was amazed at how much breakfast had improved, but alas they still only had the one crap little toaster that only takes 2 pieces of bread and barely works. I have set the m...

I boarded my flight to London which took a whopping twelve hours, arriving at 7am and heading straight to Acton to hand over my passport. I delivered my passport to the Tucan office and did some printing. I meant to print out a lot more stuff than I actually managed, but as I was already half dead I forgot most of it. After I had finished at the office, I went to have a look around London. I went to Oxford Street for lunch, I remember thinking, I was shoppin...

The guard woke me up far too early this morning for our disembarkation from out 3.5 day train journey. Consequentially, this meant everyone was standing around in the hallway for about an hour and being in the way of each other. We arrived at Irkutsk passenger terminal early in the morning where our transfer driver Dmitry was waiting for us. We got on the bus and began the hour and a half drive out to Listvyanka. Having no idea whether or not the Lake Baika...

I'm in Bangkok airport and tired out of my mind and missing Mum & Dad so much I almost can't breathe. How did I get myself in this predicament you might ask? It all started about a week and a half ago with a facebook message from my old mate Sara back at Tucan travel. I got home from work after another dreadful day of trying to look busy, and then making the disastrously long and arduous journey home via CityRail, when Sara informed me that Tucan's new T...

My last day in Huntingdon, pancake day! I went into town this morning with my cousin Bev and her two lovely kids Libby and Harry. We entered the kids in the pancake race, Harry went first and won his race, but dropped his pancake along the way. Libby was doing really well until she dropped her pancake and ended up really upset. After the race we went into a nearby coffee shop and everyone else but me had a hot drink, I had an ice coffee even though it was ab...