It’s about a month since I came back from my Trans-Siberian trip and after loads of emails and Facebook messages concerning every single detail of my journey, I came to realize that there are a lot of you out there
To live is to learn - everyone knows that. But there's a better teacher, much better than life itself and it's called "travelling the world". In just one trip you may find yourself becoming not only wiser in knowledge and experiences
"So what should I pack for the long, Trans-Siberian trip?" The question pops in your mind after taking care of all the paperwork. What should you pack really? There's no need to worry, as I've got all the answers -
My first Trans-Siberian series post went up last week - it was a pretty explanatory guide of the train and its overall route. If you read it, loved the idea but began to worry about all the details of the
"There is no railway journey of comparable length anywhere in the world.The Trans-Siberian is the big train ride. All the rest are peanuts.” Eric Newby wrote in his book "The Big Red Train Ride" published in 1978. 37 years later,
I was born in Komotini but I live in Athens. The summer of 2006, during the second year of my university studies, I happened to fell in love with a girl from Komotini. It was the end of August but
I entered the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace in Greece in September 2004 and this is when all the train madness begun. Splitting my time between Komotini (the student city) and Xanthi (hometown), made the occasional train ride
I’m not gonna lie, it was quite difficult for me to remember a trainstory worth talking about… And as I was desperately trying to remember a story to share with you , a recent event at the subway of Omonia
The train is like a tabula rasa. It doesn't have an identity, a memory or a history by itself. On the train the passengers linger temporarily, and remain anonymous between the anonymous, with the purpose to complete their journey as effortlessly
An Idea, a destination, a time schedule, a ticket, a discussion, the determination, the preparation, a train Station and