Below are a list of blog posts associated with the most-used categories. If you’re looking for a particular country, you can select it from the menu up the top.
Other pages attached to this website:
- Answers for learnrussian.rt.com exercises (plus my ‘how to learn Russian‘ post)
- What’s on the Russian as a foreign language test (level one/первый уровень/B1)
- Useful free resources for distance learning and organising life
Blog posts:
Note that these are listed in descending order, ie newest first. If you click on a place using ‘locations’ in the top menu, posts will be listed in ascending order, ie oldest to newest.
La Roja más Fuerte (Costa Rica and Colombia, July-August 2017)
- El Dorado
- Underbelly
- From the sea to the sky
- Quiet leavings
- The Lost City: Descent
- The Lost City: Green Hell
- The Lost City: Paraiso
- The Lost City: Alojamiento Adam
- A return to Santa Marta
- Manzanillo
- Cahuita
- Puerto Viejo
- San José
- La Fortuna
- Monteverde
- Santa Elena
- Tamarindo and the Pacific coast
- The bull always wins
Camino del Norte (500km in Spain, 2016)
- Hysterical: Audinghen to Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Ecstatic: Calais to Audinghen
- Pained: Loon-Plage to Calais
- Overwhelmed: De Panne to Dunkerque
- El fin: Gijón
- Leche: San Esteban de Leces and Villaviciosa
- Hambre: San Vicente de la Barquera, Buelna, and Celorio
- Romanza: Santander to Santillana del Mar and Comillas
- Americanos: Tarrueza to San Miguel Meruelo and Santander
- Vecinos: Islares to Tarrueza
- Italianos: Portugalete to Islares
- Perros Peligrosos: Morga to Portugalete, Castro-Urdiales, and Islares.
- Rubia/Nordica: to Deba, Markina-Xemein, and Eskerika
- Ballena Loca: Irun to San Sebastián; San Sebastián to Getaria.
- Day 0 Brussels to Irun
Waffling On / Vertical Germany (Belgium and Europe January 2015->)
- Doctorado: the First Semester
- Grad School
- Integration
- Shanty
- Moscow Eve
- Week of Colours
- Colombiana Blanca
- Unfunny
- Museum Night Fever
- Herbie’s Big Adventure
- A mountain do-over
- Romantic Despair
- Taking awkward to new heights
- La vie parfaite
- Sex and Power
- Take Me to Church
- TIFU
- Oklahoma City
- Laura.be
- Limitations
- Les Arcs
- Tuesday Night Circus
- Gallic Saints
- Grand Re-Entrance
- Douche Душ Dusche
- Clean Hands
- Dissociation
Australia
- Taking awkward to new heights
- Dissociation
- Being Dingo Aware
- ’60s Date Night
- Lowenbrau
- Anthropomorphic Blue Hippo
- Home-comings
- Still tripping (days 3, 4 and 5)
- The Mungo Road Trip (days 1 and 2)
- The smallest of vices
- Security
- The Road
- Modern Romance
- Bachata y di-carster.
- Hands Down
- The In-Between
- Не привыкайте никогда and squishy hearts.
- A Poem for Tony
- The ‘Berra
- The Numbers Game
- The Scotland Photos, and busy-ness.
- The Cave Mentality
- 54hrs
New Zealand
- The Pinnacle
- Rainbows, redwoods, and waters hot and cold
- Kiwi Eruptions
- Hobbiting time.
- Tree, water and fire
- Drooving and Glow-worms
- Small Steps
- Lord of the Forest
- The Airport Connection
The Long Way (Greece, Finland, the UK and Colombia, June-November 2013)
- The Scotland Photos, and busy-ness.
- 54hrs
- Monkey Island (Amazon #5)
- The Primary Jungle (Amazon #4)
- Machetes, slashing and burning (Amazon #3)
- On belly-buttons (Amazon #2)
- A Slow Start (Amazon #1)
- Magical Realism
- Medellin
- Vamos a la Playa
- Home
- My Tayrona
- Santa Marta
- Two Lauras, an Angel and a potato.
- El diálogo es superior al asalto.
- The (only) blonde at the airport
- Simultaneous Living
- Edinburgh
- In the Skye
- A punch to the heart
- ‘You know what I mean?’
- Just a taster
- Lucky
- Decorated
- A Finnish Phenomenon
- Gay Russia
- Rock-Star Teaching
- The Last Week
- С днём рождения
- Fake Russia
- Suomi
- Breaking Rules
- Countries hot and cold
- The Naked Room
- Travelling safely
- Yes is no, no is okay.
- Manners
- The romantic life
- A quick update from Istanbul
- Hostile
- The probable incidence of larceny
- Шубы
- Log
- Hammock Time
- Blue Skies
- The Bigger the Better
- Ola!
In Ze Motherland (Russia, September 2012-May 2013)
- Melbournisation
- No Dill
- Two Years Later – Interview with Naz
- Breakaway
- Вернуться
- Быстрее
- Ирония Судьбы Revisited
- Heating Up
- Moscow Eve
- Guest post: By way of introduction…
- Gay Russia
- Rock-Star Teaching
- The Last Week
- С днём рождения
- Fake Russia
- Suomi
- Blue Skies
- Opinion Piece
- The Bigger the Better
- Life in random bursts.
- On forgetting
- Land of Mugs
- In the woods
- Cheese and random noises.
- Chicken brain.
- Ola!
- Lolly, Naz and juggling.
- Camera-shy: Justin in Russia
- A couple of photos
- The ‘Australian’ test
- Michael in Russia (and breaking contracts)
- Les and the Soviet Apartment
- Quote
- The “F” Word
- 63
- “I have a car…”
- Audio-visual
- With love and vodka.
- CS Lewis
- “Write a book!” they said.
- Drunk Day
- Thinking global
- Добрая Девушка
- How to learn Russian.
- Intolerance (updated)
- Nawwww
- What’s in a name?
- Больна
- In a shocking turn of events
- Land of… opportunity?
- Cave of Gold
- At the Barn-Dance
- Le Ballet Russe
- Leeve in Russia.
- The ultimate meh
- Puppies and Rainbows
- Soixante-neuf
- Same same, but different.
- В душе моей
- Russian Rebirth
- An intermittent clock
- Mosc♥w
- Nice people, nice prices
- С Новым Годом!!
- Waxing poetic.
- Старая и глупая
- -22 and Sunny
- Infur
- Adventures in Russian
- A quick tour
- Yes, yes I did.
- Toasts
- Just too close
- Bread and bears
- On the same page
- A winter sport
- Homeless in St Petersburg? You’re in good company.
- It’s a Hostel Life
- Amo la neve
- ‘Russia is huge, but it makes no sense.’
- Неудобный
- Well they say pictures are worth a thousand words…
- Все сумасшедшие (pt 2)
- Все сумасшедшие (pt 1)
- Living the viva lada
- You can count on it (groan)
- Two minutes in the metro
- L’amour
- We’re all crazy
- Совершенный
- Shrug – it’s Russia.
- Нет problem.
- “Yes, I mean, da”.
- Not in Kansas anymore
- End of ze world
Bloc Trip (Europe and the Former Eastern Block Jan-Mar 2012)
- A One-Sided Affair
- Donkey Tales
- Sofia
- The Rila Experienca
- When in Rom…ania.
- A Viennese Sojourn
- Bones, clocks and cream
- Letters home
- Concept Czeching
- A place of many names
- Child soup and other German adventures
- A’dam
- Boots and tours
- Back to Blighty
Writing and Random
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