TRANS-SIBERIAN

THE TRAVEL THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

One of the many travel offers I received by e-mail every day was decisive.
Among the many offers was the “Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Beijing”.

I was 16 at the time and it seemed like a dream to me, but now the spark started in my head…

I had been dreaming of Russia since high school and often imagined myself on the train of the cartoon Galaxy Express 999, travelling through space in the footsteps of Captain Harlock.

After my first trip alone, in Euskal Herria, I spent more than a year organising it, without telling anyone of my misfortune and knowing that, perhaps out of fear, they would try to persuade me to abandon this madness.

I made up my passport, got the necessary visas, booked the return flights and train tickets.

Now I could announce my summer destination.

I still remember how I described the trip at home: “I have to go to Russia…but I come back from Beijing … I cross Mongolia… I do the Trans-Siberian alone!”.

I was 25, a few travel behind.
But this is THE travel .

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