Mike Manning’s personal site. I’m travelling the world starting August 2007.
28-30 August
[My photos from the train ride are here. Most are crap, as they were shot through the dirty windows of a speeding train.]
Happily reunited with my German friends from the long ride from Moscow to Irkutsk, I was feeling good about the ride into Mongolia. Then Manfred said to me, “You have food, yes?”. […]
[My photos from around Lake Baikal are here. Some are shot from a bouncing van. Sorry.]
“So here I am at midnight in a wooden hut just feet from the world’s largest lake, with a blazing fire, surrounded by 5 Russian guys I just met, and everybody’s naked. And then they start lashing me with birch branches.”
Irkutsk, the main train […]
[My photos from the train ride are here. Most are crap, as they were shot through the dirty windows of a speeding train. But at least there are a lot of them!]
Vowing to learn from my previous mistakes with trains, I arrived early (again) at the station in Moscow on Tuesday night, and triple-checked my […]
[My photos from Moscow are here. And yes, I groaned when I wrote that title too.]
I arrived in Moscow with sore feet from St. Petersburg, so I planned to take it easy. The great folks at the Trans Siberian Hostel let me check in early, and I was able to take a shower and have […]
I’m about to head to the train station to get on the 3+ day leg from Moscow to Irkutsk. Might have access to update when I’m by Lake Baikal, but not sure. The photos are up from Moscow, text coming when I get a chance.
UPDATE: I made it to Irkutsk, and am now on Olkhon […]
[ I added another 100 photos to my St. Petersburg photo gallery]
This will be a short post, to get caught up.
On my final day in St. Petersburg, I managed to get up early to pack my things and make it to the meeting spot a few blocks away for a walking tour from Peter’s Walks. The tour lasted […]
[ My photos from St. Petersburg]
I arrived into St. Petersburg just before midnight on Tuesday night, via an easy 7 hour train from Tallinn. Working with Alex, a travel agent in Petersburg, and boyhood friend of one of my friends in LA, I had pre-arranged a private apartment, and a transfer from the station to […]