Dosvedanye Moscow

After two great days in Moscow it´s final now - I have to return home. I´m more or less on my way to the Domodedovo Airport to take my flight to Munich. After more than 5 months of travelling I´m a little bit exhausted, I had so many impressions during these months that I can do with a little rest now. Not that I wouldn´t like to travel for some more months. Two weeks in a quiet corner of the world would be enough for me to regain energy for some more months of exploring, roaming the world. Well, it´s not meant to be. Come monday….

But I´m looking forward to return home, to see friends and familiy again - although I´m a little bit frightened of all the social responsabilities I´ll have to face, the bottles of good wine I´ll be forced to drink, … 

Moscow - and the way back home

After 82h in the train I just arrived in Moscow, the last station of this trip. Lucky me, I can can stay right in the center with a friend - Sophie, who I met in Agra and Jaipur. And, even better, she´s working as Brand Ambassador for Blasons de Bourgogne - french wine….

But I only have two days in Moscow, because the 14th, I have a flight to Munich - if the vulcanoes in Iceland allow it. Sadly, this trip is now really coming to an end and much faster than initially planned, I´ll start working the 17th. But sometimes, you have no choice but to bite the bullet.

Dangerous Men

All men dream - but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds woke in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence - The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

On the way back home

After more than five months of travelling it´s time for me to head back home. Not that I´m tired of travelling, no, on the contrary. It´s more a relationship thing. We all know, in a healthy relationship, you have to give, if you want to take. So, after all these months of giving, my bank account has decided that it´s now time for it to take. And it wasn´t open for negotiations. That´s the reason why I´m now rushing west. Totally broke, but richer than ever.

Tomorrow, I´ll continue on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Irkutsk to Moscow. After 82 hours on the train, I´ll reach Moscow in the early morning of the 12^th of May. I´ll spend two days there, meeting Sophie again, who I got to know in India, before flying to Munich on the 14^th. And, three days later, I´m a salary slave again.

Through the land of Dschenghis Khan

In this moment, I´m on my way to catch the Trans-Siberian Train to Irkutsk, passing through Mongolia, the land of Dschengis Khan. Until yesterday, it was unsure if I could make this trip as planned, because in China, there´re public holidays from the first of mai until the 3rd, with all the embassies closed. But I managed to get exceptionally get a visa for Mongolia in one day (needed a lot of convincing, all my charm and a small fortune), so I´m on my way back to Europe.

I´ll reach Irkutsk, my first stop in Russia, the 7th of mai, spend a day there to see Lake Baikal, before spending more than 80h in a train to Moscow. I´ll stay there from the 12th to the 14th, when I have a flight (vulcanoes permitting) to Munich. Well, and then, it´s back to the slavery of work - the 17th of may, I´m a wage slave again.

But now, I´m looking forward on my trip back home - totally broke, but richer than ever.