Asia-Europe Express: From the southernmost point of continental Asia in Singapore to Cape Nordkinn, the northernmost on continental Europe; one rail road to link them all.
你转身向北侧脸还是很美
我一路向北离开有你的季节
Sunday, 11 January 2009
December 2008: SuiFenhe, China to Grodyekovo, Russia
Leaving Harbin in the evening of 30 Dec, I was in the Chinese border town of SuifenHe the next day. Just in time for the crossover into Russia on the last day of 2008.
I am not sure what planted the idea in my brain. Ever since my first trip out of Singapore to Malaysia on the Malaysia Railway, I have been wondering how far north I could push on overland on trains. When I did really sit down and study it, it seems very far north: all the way to Europe. And so, the whole idea of jumping on a train in Singapore, getting off and jumping on another all the way until the last one pulls up into a platform somewhere in the Scandanavia continues to fascinate in the next few years.
When I do talk about this ideas to friends, some find it totally impossible. The whole seperation of Europe from Asia has made many think that it is a true geographical seperation rather than a political one.
[[The 2 pix of Sentosa and Noth-Cape above are from someone else's blog.]]
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