In the summer of 2006 we spent a few exciting days in Bangkok. Peter and I (Helena) arrived by plane from Beijing and slept one night in Bangkok before it was time to meet Peter's two sons Robin and Billie. They flew themselves from Sweden. Now our journey changed - from travelling alone on the Trans-Siberian Railway through Siberia and Mongolia, it was time for a family holiday in Thailand.
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We arrived in Beijing on the Trans-Siberian railway, and now it was time for us to experience the bustling capital of China. We tell you about the sights in Beijing and our experiences in China.
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Today we will tell you about the time we spent a night in a yurt in Mongolia. This is probably one of the most exciting travelling experiences we had. As well as trying to live in a nomadic tent, we had the opportunity to experience food shortages on a 24-hour train journey, eat horse milk balls and drop a camera right in front of a horse's hooves...
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Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world - how exotic does that sound? On our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway we stopped in Irkutsk in Siberia, and from here it is not far to Listvyanka and the deepest lake in the world. Of course, we had to go there!
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Today we will take you to Irkutsk in Siberia, which we visited in the summer of 2006. We continue today to tell you about our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway that started in Moscow and continued all the way to Beijing. But we are going to tell you about the first stop, the one that happened after about four days on the train.
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Today we offer some experiences in Moscow, from our trip in 2006. We started with a flight from Stockholm to Moscow, and then we continued with the Trans-Siberian railway through Russia, to Mongolia and China. It will be a series of these I think... But as I said, we start in Moscow!
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What are the best bags for travelling? We've finally figured out what's smart for us! We each have four bags that we combine in different ways on every trip - a suitcase, a cabin bag, a backpack and a handbag/shoulder strap bag. Today we tell you what we think is most important about a bag to make it suitable for travelling.
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Today we present 10 popular countries on our blog FREEDOMtravel. We have, for various reasons, delved a little into statistics, and it's just as well that we share them with you! We have checked which pages and posts have been read the most in 2017 and until today, and looked at which countries are at the top. Which country would you like to read more about - one of these or something completely different?
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Going on a language trip - why? When I set off on a language trip to Bournemouth in the UK at the age of 15, it was probably the adventure that attracted me, not so much the idea of learning a language. Looking back, I'm grateful for both - the adventure and the language.
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Peter booked the flights to and from Finland this weekend and we were happy with both the times and the price. Or so we thought. I guess you could say that it was little mistake. Today we tell you about this weekend's big travel mistake, and other travel mistakes we've made throughout our lives.
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