November 1, 2011 English, Europe 欧洲
Day 2: 12.08.2011 Trient – Champex We were expecting a long day ahead and had to start early. Breakfast was at 06:30 hrs: juice, bread with butter, cereal, hot chocolate and apple. We started trekking at 07:20 hrs, but after just a short while we stopped to wait for Chin Teong to turn back [...]
October 15, 2011 English, Europe 欧洲
Having trekked in about 20 countries since I took up trekking as a hobby some 10 years ago, I thought it was about time I went to Switzerland and spent some time in the Alps. After all, Switzerland is well known as one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and its Alps are [...]
October 10, 2011 English, Europe 欧洲
My wife and I waited for the bus near a fountain on the main road of Kalambaka on a Tuesday morning in October 2007. Kalambaka is a small town in the interior of mainland Greece. It had taken us 5.5 hours to get here by bus from Athens. Our sole purpose of coming here was [...]
July 30, 2011 English, Europe 欧洲
In the middle of 2005 I travelled from Beijing to Moscow by train, a distance of 7,865 km. The line from Beijing to Ulan Ude in Siberia, passing through Mongolia, is known as the Trans-Mongolian Railway. The line from Ulan Ude to Moscow is part of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The other part of the Trans-Siberian [...]
