Blogshank - Mike Smith, Illustrator and Diary Blogger » london https://blogshank.com Mon, 11 May 2026 23:21:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 110213 https://blogshank.com/2013/03/110213/ https://blogshank.com/2013/03/110213/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:38:23 +0000 Mike http://blogshank.com/?p=1515 Voobavoobacallister

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The text was intended just to jog my memory for writing it all up later, but of course I never did. Some of the drawings are truly awful but because I’m a completeness freak I’m going to scan them all.

Er, including the first one where the pencil got smudged into oblivion. No-one will ever know what we got up to in Minsk.

Travel diary, London-Singapore by train: Minsk and Moscow

Travel diary, London-Singapore by train: Moscow

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