Winter in Russia is rapidly approaching. Here are some wonderful aerial drone film of both St Petersburg and Moscow during winter. We have mixed views about drones! yes you can...

Young Aussies (Kiwis, too) have always been up for a bit of adventure in foreign parts. In 1919, exactly a century ago, World War I was over – officially –...

One after another… several recent letters to the travel pages of Australian newspapers have recounted upsets caused by Russian officials’ rigid enforcement of visa expiry times and dates. Typically, hapless...

Ulaanbaatar, the capital, is a city of around 1 million people – half of Mongolia’s entire population – and an obvious stopover on the epic Trans Mongolian rail journey from...

Any tour operator is only as good as its ground operators.  The people on the ground must do their damnedest to remain knowledgeable, capable and tireless, sometimes working long hours...

One of the quirks of the Russian system is that you can sometimes stave off the tedium of re-registering whenever you leave a gateway city like Moscow or St Petersburg....