kinyan andrew and luke are the main characters of this um, blog.
After having a big dinner at kari, a malaysian place about 30 mins off campus, i am reading a book called unlikely destinations, the lonely planet story. it's a story about how lonely planet got set up, by a british and a irish husband and wife team. and they met by sitting upon opposite ends of a bench, in Regent Park. Hmm. Anyhow, i am looking forward to the trip. (obviously!) Although, we still need to iron out some details, such as how much currency to bring over, whether we should get travellers cheques etc. And i definitely have to go and check up on wiring money to a certain Tatiana in russia (no, not a mail bride...) for train tickets from Ulan Ude to Ulan Bator. shite.
The trip starts like this: 28th of may, we leave middletown, connecticut, US of A, and take a series of trains to get to JFK airport in New York. Our flight, air india, leaves for london at 755pm and reaches london at 740am. we'll spend about a day in london, take a train to stanstead airport by 7pm and sleep over to take a flight the next morning to riga, latvia at 6am. we'll roam about riga for 2 days before taking a bus (18hrs long) to st petersburg. 5 days after, we'll reach moscow, and 5 days after, we'll stop by a few more cities. we'll be in irkutsk for 7 days or so, ulan ude for 2 days, then ulan bator for about 2 weeks to catch the nadaam festival. We'll be in beijing by the 15th of july (cheeaaaapcheaaaaaaapfoooooooood. like peking duck. wowwowweewow.) and then qingdao, shanghai and then finally hongkong on the 25th or 26th.
we'll all part ways on the 27th from macau, kinyan for malaysia, andrew for singapore and i for thailand. koh samet calls me.
- l
btw, i am really just relaxing the days away on campus, now that the finals have ended. just today, i spent a very fruitful 20 minutes reading the lonely planet book in the car with kings of convenience playing, while i stuck my feet out of the window to give it a breather. just to let you know what i'm doing nowadays. heh.
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