Archive for June, 2008
Downtown Street in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil
June 29, 2008All Aboard! (or maybe not…)
June 27, 2008Don’t get stung by the Belarus visa situation en route from Poland to Lithuania (or onwards to Estonia/Latvia.) A train leaves Warsaw and arrived at the Lithuanian border at Sestokai, where you change trains for the onward trip. A word of warning: If you’ve got a “Baltic Explorer” railpass, don’t rely on getting it validated [...]
Bridge between the US and Canada, Niagara Falls, NY
June 26, 2008Travelling in Russia
June 25, 2008I read an article in a newspaper which said from April 1997 it will illegal to flag down a small car in Russia. You must use the official taxis and there will be on-the-spot fines for the driver. In Moscow there is an Internet cafe on the 2nd floor of the Chevignon jeans store located [...]
If you can’t beat them…
June 14, 2008Another way of keeping environmental damage to a minimum is to go somewhere that has already succumbed entirely to the lures of consumer culture – yes, we’re talking Las Vegas. In general, big cities are an excellent damage-limitation destination and they allow you to tap the exotic. An extra western tourist is hardly likely to [...]
