“Overland travel is slow and a great deal more trouble, but it is unconfortable in a way that is completely human and often reassuring.”
Recommended lecture, any of his travel books.
Paul Theroux says…
June 12, 2016
New trip, new blog, same address
November 29, 2010
Video – China
May 21, 2010
Video – Buryatia
May 21, 2010
Video: Russia
April 17, 2010
Small world – part 2
April 11, 2010
Final accounting
April 1, 2010
Next Where: Stop!
March 24, 2010
A tribute to Couchsurfing.org
March 23, 2010
Porto Alegre – Elinka e Alberto
March 22, 2010
Ticket to our next stop
March 18, 2010
When a decision becomes an indecision…
March 17, 2010
Internet at the beach
March 16, 2010
Laziness by the beach before an end
March 16, 2010
Florianólis, Patricia and her two children
March 13, 2010
Bacalhau com Natas
March 10, 2010
Curitiba, Milana and Dalmo
March 7, 2010
Problem solving – Brazilian way
March 7, 2010
Sao Paulo – Vlad e Vanessa
March 6, 2010
The Sheep Keeper
March 6, 2010
Mobile network in Brazil – a story
March 3, 2010
Rio de Janeiro, the ghost Xiopan
February 27, 2010
Literary Travel Companions
February 27, 2010
Converted to Catholicism?
February 26, 2010
Getting tired
February 26, 2010
Contemporary Art in Brazil
February 21, 2010
In Brazil
February 21, 2010
Season change
February 14, 2010
Passing through Switzerlad
February 13, 2010
Hotels in United States
February 11, 2010
Washington, Margaret, Brad, Christina and Marc
February 10, 2010
New activities
February 6, 2010
Couchsurfing reenconter
February 6, 2010
Snowstorm paralyses Washington DC and eastern US
February 6, 2010
The Washington Post, February 5th 2010, Movie Reviews
February 5, 2010
A story
February 4, 2010
Brookly, Lisa and Wistlepig
February 3, 2010
The Law
February 3, 2010
USA experiences…
February 3, 2010
In the streets of Chicago, Boston, New York….
January 30, 2010
Boston, Alda
January 28, 2010
Chicago, Hannah
January 28, 2010
Silence is not on purpose
January 27, 2010
US Prices
January 14, 2010
Police raid in Tucson
January 13, 2010
Public transport in the US
January 13, 2010
First Amtrak Experience
January 9, 2010
Looking for reasons not to relocate to San Francisco
January 8, 2010
The culture of the sub-culture
January 6, 2010
Hopefully here
January 6, 2010
Time wrap travel
January 1, 2010
To travel…
January 1, 2010
Sometimes I miss…
January 1, 2010
Next stop – where?
January 1, 2010
From Singapore
December 29, 2009
Sometimes I miss…
December 29, 2009
Sometimes…
December 27, 2009
Christmas in Singapore
December 21, 2009
Strange signals
December 20, 2009
Changing money – different countries, different experiences…
December 19, 2009
Arrived to Malaysia
December 11, 2009
Closed for holidays?
December 11, 2009
Update from the beach
December 10, 2009
Lettre depuis le paradis
December 3, 2009
Something about tourists in Thailand
December 1, 2009
Comments about Phrae, Thailand
November 30, 2009
Thailand
November 26, 2009
Travelling by elephant
November 22, 2009
Memories from the Cambodian war
November 18, 2009
Tipping, beggars, over-pricing: questions
November 16, 2009
Current stop: Cambodia
November 13, 2009
Motorbikes, last photos
November 12, 2009
Motorbikes and bicycles
November 11, 2009
Motorbikes and bicycles
November 11, 2009
Cu Chi Tunnels
November 6, 2009
The 8-hour trainride that took 26 hours
November 5, 2009
The longest ever 7-hour train ride
November 3, 2009
Travel software and websites
November 3, 2009
“One Dollah for Pahking”
November 3, 2009
The Reunification Express
November 2, 2009
Flood, Mirinae and photos
November 2, 2009
Good and bad weather
October 31, 2009
Vietnam, first toughts
October 26, 2009
Small world outside
October 26, 2009
Last pictures of China
October 26, 2009
China – Episode 2
October 24, 2009
Border crossing – China-Vietnam
October 22, 2009
Train tracks
October 20, 2009
Bus broke down stop
October 20, 2009
Why Hong Kong is not China
October 20, 2009
Night Train Philosophies – Shenzhen to Guilin
October 16, 2009
Back to China
October 12, 2009
Fire safety in China
October 10, 2009
Pieces of magic
October 8, 2009
“Der Weg ist das Ziel” – photos
October 7, 2009
“Der Weg ist das Ziel”
October 7, 2009
30 days in China
October 4, 2009
Email from an exhibition
October 1, 2009
Six months searching the Next Stop
September 21, 2009
Eva birthday chocolate cake
September 21, 2009
Paul Theroux says…
September 19, 2009
Clarifications
September 18, 2009
Photos from China
September 18, 2009
Pandas
September 17, 2009
Travel moments of indecision
September 15, 2009
Breakfast
September 15, 2009
Paracetamol
September 13, 2009
No sense
September 12, 2009
Great Wall and Pingyao
September 8, 2009
Beijing tourists, drivers and censorship
September 7, 2009
Blogger censored in China!
September 2, 2009
South Korea – Seoul
September 2, 2009
Preparing China
August 28, 2009
Washing machines
August 27, 2009
South Korea – Gyeongju and around
August 21, 2009
South Korea – Gangneung and around
August 21, 2009
Recent activity
August 20, 2009
Alphabets
August 18, 2009
Korean technology at the service of the tourist – part II
August 18, 2009
Korean technology at the service of the tourist – part I
August 13, 2009
South Korea – Gonju
August 10, 2009
South Korea – Busan and Jinju
August 10, 2009
Toilet paper machine
August 9, 2009
Korea, first toughts
August 7, 2009
About Japan
August 7, 2009
Through Japan towards the South
August 6, 2009
Japanese trains
August 4, 2009
Japan – hot and humid
August 1, 2009
Four months of travelling – a review
July 30, 2009
Reshiri Island, Japan
July 28, 2009
Boat stories
July 27, 2009
Last day in Russia
July 24, 2009
Komsomolsk-na-Amure
July 21, 2009
Itchy, itchy, itchy….
July 20, 2009
Siberian Food
July 16, 2009
At the northern tip of Lake Baikal
July 13, 2009
36-hour train to Severobaikalsk
July 11, 2009
Around Lake Baikal
July 10, 2009
Cantina do Sanatorio
July 7, 2009
Photos!
July 7, 2009
Three months – equipement review
July 5, 2009
Buryatia School – Engorboy
July 4, 2009
Buryatia Experience Part 2: Teaching the children
July 1, 2009
The story of the sheep’s head
July 1, 2009
Buryatian dictionary
June 30, 2009
Burtyatia school – Mikhaylovka
June 23, 2009
Ulan-Ude
June 21, 2009
Pictures of people
June 20, 2009
La cuisine Russe
June 20, 2009
Two weeks away
June 20, 2009
Ulan Ude market
June 20, 2009
Train stops 2
June 20, 2009
Moscow time
June 20, 2009
Train stops
June 20, 2009
Remont again…
June 20, 2009
Russian trains
June 19, 2009
Being taken care of in Russia
June 19, 2009
Train ride with Buddhists
June 19, 2009
Russia pessimistic opinion
June 16, 2009
Dictatorship in Russia?
June 14, 2009
Small world of CouchSurfing
June 14, 2009
Train ride with Sergei
June 13, 2009
Omsk
June 11, 2009
Train ride from Kazan to Omsk
June 10, 2009
Travel Literature
June 10, 2009
Free night in hotel?
June 10, 2009
Kazan
June 8, 2009
View of the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod
June 8, 2009
Cleaning…
June 7, 2009
Photos!
June 6, 2009
Yaroslavl
June 5, 2009
“Remont”
June 4, 2009
Impressions from Moscow
June 3, 2009
Internet places – a nightmare
June 2, 2009
Making friends in Moscow
June 2, 2009
Moscow architecture
June 1, 2009
What you do when travelling?
June 1, 2009
Russian train experience
May 31, 2009
Petrozavods
May 31, 2009
Moscow – Elena and Alex
May 31, 2009
Train trip with Oleg
May 30, 2009
Kizhi island, the photo
May 29, 2009
View on Kiszi Island
May 27, 2009
Buying train ticket in Russia – experience I
May 26, 2009
Twitter like impressions of Sankt Petersburg
May 26, 2009
Russian Toilet Experience – 2
May 24, 2009
Russian Toilet Experience – 1
May 24, 2009
St Petersburg nights
May 23, 2009
A museum visit
May 23, 2009
Tallinn – Kumu
May 22, 2009
Need your input!
May 22, 2009
Simplify your life
May 22, 2009
Regarde le ciel…
May 20, 2009
Body Combat – Tallinn class
May 17, 2009
In Estonia
May 14, 2009
Napkins and country development
May 14, 2009
A word about trains
May 14, 2009
Unexpected internet – no train
May 11, 2009
Riga Market
May 10, 2009
Miguel jumping from a pole… crazy?
May 9, 2009
The Hill of Crosses
May 8, 2009
Eastern European Oddities
May 8, 2009
For all our readers…
May 6, 2009
The Centre of Europe Park
May 5, 2009
Please scroll down!
May 3, 2009
O dia em que a Eva perdeu o guia de viagem
May 3, 2009
Sunday late morning in Kaunas, Lithuania
May 2, 2009
Forgot my brain in Poland?
May 1, 2009
Computer all night
May 1, 2009
Poste restante
April 30, 2009
Battle of Storks
April 30, 2009
Kayaking
April 28, 2009
Grattements de l’oeil
April 26, 2009
Soviet movie
April 24, 2009
A bike ride to remember…
April 23, 2009
Sem ideas
April 22, 2009
Gdansk
April 22, 2009
TESO – the expenses tracker
April 22, 2009
Warszawa
April 20, 2009
Monika Viktordottir
April 19, 2009
Warszawa Sunday
April 19, 2009
Couchsurfing
April 19, 2009
Culture Palace in Warsaw
April 17, 2009
Travel rhythm, updating blog and our notebooks
April 17, 2009
Couch Surfing around
April 13, 2009
Poland (first) impressions
April 13, 2009
An example of Eastern European Efficacy
April 13, 2009
Auschwitz/Birkenau Concentration Camp
April 13, 2009
In Cracow. no time to update
April 12, 2009
Impressions from the Nighttrain Budapest/Krakow
April 10, 2009
Meeting Cesar
April 9, 2009
Adventures of a bike ride to Bratislava
April 7, 2009
Body Combat – stage I – Vienna
April 7, 2009
Vienna Highlights
April 7, 2009
Vienna strange inhabitants
April 6, 2009
How to get around Vienna for 1 Euro
April 4, 2009
What do you actually take with you?
April 2, 2009
Rhine waterfalls
April 1, 2009
ça me fait bizarre…
April 1, 2009
Departure
March 31, 2009
Farewell party
March 30, 2009
Life in boxes
March 29, 2009
Business card
March 28, 2009
Blog name brainstorming
March 22, 2009
Body Combat farewell
March 19, 2009
Second Life
March 18, 2009
The Market for Lemons
March 17, 2009
Sharing country and city tips 1 – Vienna and Budapest
March 9, 2009
The giving away process – part 2
March 3, 2009
Farewell apéros
February 20, 2009
Vaccination – Ouch!
February 17, 2009
The giving away process
February 16, 2009
Support a meal – part 1
February 16, 2009
Getting into travel mode
February 13, 2009
Trip extra-financing
February 2, 2009
Une bonne raison de voyager à deux (inspiré par mon collègue Jean)
February 1, 2009