Transmongolian ● 8000 km on a train
“Why can’t you visit London, again, for example?”. I remember the look in my parents’ eyes. Fierce, but disillusioned. They knew nothing could change… Read More
Санкт-Петербург, Piter, Saint Petersburg, Leningrado?
Russia had remained in my heart, and in memory. August 2004 marked my first trip to the Great Mother. Maybe this permanence was due to… Read More
Москва́ – Moscow
One night. The only rare interruption is given by train wheels lulling me across the 750 kilometers that took me from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. A few grumbled Russian words get… Read More
Life on a train
Tickets can be purchased at local train stations, or you can get them sent to you by numerous travel agencies that organise this kind of… Read More
Lake Baikal
636 kilometers from north to south, 60 kilometers wide. 1637 meters deep on its Western shores. It’s the present given by rotating drunken tectonic plates… Read More
Mongolia part 1
It feels like some kind of end is near. Initially you think you can stop all those intangible kilometers that run outside your window, then you realize… Read More
Mongolia part 2 ● The Absurdity of Violence
Gun Galuut is behind me now, but I have often wondered if I have really left that place behind. Some memories last forever within us and… Read More
Transmongolian
Russia… Read More