Blogshank - Mike Smith, Illustrator and Diary Blogger » irkutsk https://blogshank.com Mon, 11 May 2026 23:21:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Taiga Forest https://blogshank.com/2011/09/taiga-forest/ https://blogshank.com/2011/09/taiga-forest/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:43:45 +0000 Mike http://blogshank.com/?p=1104 In Tomsk we met someone called Gregory who got together some of his mates with carrier bags full of vodka bottles, and took us into the Taiga Forest to murder us for a barbecue.

Travel sketchbook diary, London-Singapore by train: Russia: Taiga forest

Gregory turned out to be the perfect host, guiding us back out of the forest in the small hours.

Travel sketchbook diary, London-Singapore by train: Russia: Tomsk

The trouble with staying in hostels is that you get on a kind of treadmill, meeting only other tourists. (We tried to correct this by using the couchsurfing website.) I wish I’d done more cartoons like the one below, but the trains and buses were too clattery to draw in.

Travel sketchbook diary, London-Singapore by train: cartoon of international hostellers

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