The Trip - Hong Kong to Exmouth, U.K. Summer 1998 |
During the Spring of 1994 we travelled from Moscow to Irkutsk by train. This journey prompted us to wonder what the rest of the route was like to, say, Beijing. We subsequently discovered that a fast overnight train service between Hong Kong and Beijing had been inaugurated in the Summer of 1997. This, together with the Eurostar link from Brussels to London, was the final spur which made us decide to travel by train from Hong Kong to Exmouth, U.K. over a period of 27 days during June/July 1998. Why this way? It seemed to us that it would have been somewhat of an anticlimax to travel eastwards and then fly home! We are glad we made this decision. It seemed 'right' as soon as we arrived in Hong Kong. More pictures of China can be found here.
Thanks to the efficiency of Monkey Business, at both Hong Kong and Beijing, who made the rail and accommodation bookings for us from Hong Kong through to Moscow, the whole trip ran incredibly smoothly. At the planning stages they were always 'just at the end of an email' and promptly replied to the many queries that we had. |
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