Just launched a special, purpose-built blog for my travels through the former Soviet Union.
The plan is to test-drive it while I’m in Moscow, ironing out any bugs before I set off on the trip proper later in the year.
I could have used this blog. But it’s hosted on the same server as my web site and well, I have a feeling that internet cafes in Russia will be about as secure as the ones in Nigeria. Plus it’s shiny and new and will hopefully distract you all from the fact that I haven’t had a book out for a while.
You can check it out here. The more computer-literate of you might even want to subscribe to the RSS feed.
This is where you'll find everything you need to know about me and my books.
Great stuff, will be exciting to see the trip develop! I wonder if you’ll have a division in mind between what you’ll blog as you go, and what you’ll save up for the book?
And also, will you still blog here when “off-duty”?
Sounds great, Comrade Piotr!
I was in Ukraine last summer … Odessa’s great, while down in the Crimea, Yalta’s very touritsty in a ‘Russian’ kinda way. Statue of Lenin looking out onto McD’s and all that. Balaklava’s much quieter (the guy running the place I stayed at couldn’t speak a word English, and the place itself hadn’t had a lick of paint in years – fantastic!!)
Sounds great Peter. I just traveled through the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Don’t even try to speak Russian in Estonia…better off with Chinese!
ps. Surprised you haven’t joined Facebook yet? And what happened to your myspace profile?
I’m sure you’ll have a ball! Smart move distrusting the Internet cafes. Some of those machines are just _loaded_ with crapware. Plan to do any banking by phone! Never EVER use an Internet cafe for that.
Then again, you’ll be surviving on 600 quid for the whole trip, right?