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UK TO Vladivostok: Driving the Trans-Siberian - experience the ultimate road trip! Ever had the desire to simply jump in the car and keep driving, to wave goodbye to routine and commitment, to drive into the unknown with your arm out of the window hungry for adventure! Well, that is precisely what twin brothers and UK authors, Simon Raven and Chris Raven decided to do whilst stacking boxes of frozen oven chips in a minus 30degreeC freezer. With a squeaky foot pump and an SAS Survival Guide, the brothers fired up their rusty GBP300 Ford Sierra and headed east. Not being petrol heads and having very little knowledge of the internal combustion engine, with luck they hoped to reach Poland and maybe even the Baltic State of Estonia - where lived, according to legend, the most beautiful girls on the planet. After driving for six weeks and clocking up over 11,000 miles, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Siberia on the Sea of Japan. What they had in fact done was to drive the entire length of the amazing new Amur Highway before it was finished, which crosses Russia in a 6,200 mile swath of cracked tarmac and potholes.Along the way our trusty heroes drink vodka with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet the eccentric and plain weird at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and have a race to the finish with the Germans. Surviving this journey by the skin of their teeth, the brothers are forced to confront their worst fears in this toe-curling comedy that is both gripping and surreal.
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UK TO VLADIVOSTOK: Driving the Trans-Siberian - experience the ultimate road trip!
Ever had the desire to simply jump in the car and keep driving, to wave goodbye to routine and commitment, to drive into the unknown with your arm out of the window hungry for adventure? Well, that is precisely what twin brothers and UK authors, Simon Raven and Chris Raven decided to do whilst stacking boxes of frozen oven chips in a minus 30°C freezer. With a squeaky foot pump and an SAS Survival Guide, the brothers fired up their rusty £300 Ford Sierra and headed east. Not being petrol heads and having very little knowledge of the internal combustion engine, with luck they hoped to reach Poland and maybe even the Baltic State of Estonia - where lived, according to legend, the most beautiful girls on the planet.
After driving for six weeks and clocking up over 11,000 miles, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Siberia on the Sea of Japan. What they had in fact done was to drive the entire length of the amazing new Amur Highway before it was finished, which crosses Russia in a 6,200 mile swath of cracked tarmac and potholes. Along the way our trusty heroes drink vodka with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet the eccentric and plain weird at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and have a race to the finish with the Germans. Surviving this journey by the skin of their teeth, the brothers are forced to confront their worst fears in this toe-curling comedy that is both gripping and surreal.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Two likeable lads on a road trip. Looking for a good time and achieving it on a very modest budjet. A buy for any person thinking you need to be loaded to travel the world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a superb travel book. It's not often I read a book in a day, but I couldn't put this down. The reason for only four stars is that I'm comparing it (probably unfairly) to Mike Carters "Uneasy Rider". This book isn't as amusing as UR, which had me laughing out loud - but then again, I suspect the Raven Brothers didn't set out to write a comedy (although the choice of car is in my mind comical).
If you don't buy this book.... then I suggest you nick it.
If you don't buy this book.... then I suggest you nick it.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book by the Raven brothers is superior to the first one, Living the Linger. It describes a more interesting trip to places travel writers have spent less time covering-at least by road. One or two lengthy sections cover the details of the people they met(and became intimate with) but it surely would have been better to try to learn a little Russian first? Too much time spent describing the trip across Europe to the Russian border, and too many typographical errors-it really is annoying to be confronted with so many errors which ought to be confined to a 13 year old's schoolwork. However, overall, it's a good read and I'll be looking forward to reading about their adventures in South America.
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Oh dear!!!
As I read this I kept hoping it would improve...it didn't. It went in the bin as I was too embarrassed to have it on my shelf.......vanity published rubbish!
Published 4 months ago by What the Dickens!
Not a Travel Book - Resembles a boorish drunken conversation in a bad...
Having travelled through Russia myself via car, horse, train, snowmobile and aeroplane I thought that this would be an interesting alternative view of travelling through Russia. Read more
Published 23 months ago by A Man & Dog & Mistress
Rubbish
I bought this book on the strength of the previous reviews; so I feel compelled to add my own views. The Linger Longer is probably the worst travel book I have read. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2008 by thehunger
Ultimate road trip !
Excellent book, great adventures lose your self with the Raven brothers.
Having read all the Linger series this was my favourite.
C'mon boys more books please !!!!!
Having read all the Linger series this was my favourite.
C'mon boys more books please !!!!!
Published on 17 May 2008 by C. Rogers
Laughed so hard I cried
Dirty, hilarious, and insightful--3 words that don't often go together. These guys nail the combination with this exuberantly irreverent travelogue, in much the same vein as Big... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2007 by Uncle Joe
Overall good, too many wisecracks and sexcapades
I'd have appreciated better this book if the authors had put a limits to their witty wisecracks and narration of sexcapades. Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2007 by Ventura Angelo
Road Trip Time! Witty with adventure
I'm no mechcanic, but how did these guys make it to Vladivostok in that car without the engine blowing up, or without a Sat Nav? Read more
Published on 20 July 2007 by Gulliver's Travels
Long way in a banger
I'd never heard of the Raven brothers when i first bought this book, but i love finding new talent. The problem is my life seems so boring after reading it. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2007 by Helen Mohan
Siberia in a £300 Ford Sierra.
What a fantastic read! There I was thinking Ewan McGregor and his mate were hardcore adventurers after reading their book, but these brothers are way ahead. Where do I start? Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2006 by Frazer Island
Loved it!
Driving across Russia and Siberia in a £300 Ford Sierra? I just had to buy it. This is the funniest travel book i have read in a long time. Read more
Published on 19 July 2006 by Travel Bum
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