Monthly Archives: April 2011

Silk Road Route

We have now worked out a desired route along the Silk Road from Istanbul all the way to Beijing. Thanks to The Silk Roads – A Route and Planning Guide (Amazon link). A good job that this is a really …

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Which Way To Go?

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Pretty fundamental really – when we get on a plane in Heathrow, is it going to fly east or west? Our first thought was that we should go west to Cuba (via Mexico) and then on to South America during …

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Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!

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I should have known better really. I went on to Amazon to find a laminated wall map and thought that 130cm x 90cm didn’t sound all that big really. Well it turns out that the standard corkboards that you can …

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