Continents

  • Europe,  Stories

    Fear smells like chewing gum

    Our stay in Saint Petersburg finally reached its end: three days of exploration between channels and bridges, monuments and ancient estates, plus the unbroken chain of short storms five minutes after each other were about to leave the stage to the first part of our journey on a train. Even though the „Kilometer 0” of the Transsiberian railway is actually located in Moscow, my group and I were about to get our baptism of fire and spend the first of many nights to come in one of the train’s wagons.   It was a scorching summer day like any other, the perfect time to travel from one point of the…

  • Europe,  Practical information

    How to plan a trip to winter wonderland in Iceland – if you can

    Ooops… But you can still try to, let us help you with that! Topics covered in this post: Flight ticket Accommodation How to get to the city? How to get around? Car rental Organised trips Food Hidden perks Useful apps and websites Extremely useful websites   Flight ticket First of all, it is important to check both the flight tickets and the accommodation simultaneously, both of them can be quite expensive, thus the best is to find the perfect combination. When I first started to have an idea about the hostel prices, I found them even for 15 euro, however, as soon as we found the cheapest dates for flying, there…

  • Asia,  Practical information

    Transsiberian after: the big Mongolian getaway

    Important information on how to organise “the Transsib after: the big Mongolian trip” based on the trip made in August 2016 How did we start the preparation We were taking a more than 2-week-long trip from Saint Petersburg to Baikal lake, finishing it by coming back to Irkutsk after around 4 days next to Baikal lake. We knew that it is not going to be easy to get to know more about Mongolia without a little help, thus I contacted a hostel in Ulanbataar about whom I got the information that they organise different kind of trips all around the country for travellers. It was around 30 of us arriving…