166 - Round the World by Sea and Land

Jane Meighan set off on her first big adventure at the age of 17,
heading to Australia to spend three months there. Her family hadn't
travelled a lot, so it was an eye-opening experience for her, and
laid the foundations of her love for travel. Since then, she's
spent a fair bit of time in Western Europe, visiting friends and
enjoying the art - especially the Gaudi museum in Barcelona. As an
environmentally conscious person, a comment made by a friend about
her carbon footprint made Jane realise how much flying she was
doing, and what that was doing to the environment. So she's decided
to travel around the world by land and sea. She'll start in
Edinburgh, and travel down the UK to catch a boat to Amsterdam
before travelling slowly through Eastern Europe. The Trans-Siberian
train will take her across Russia, and she'll travel by cargo ship
from Shanghai to the States and from the other side of the States
back to the UK after cross-country trip. Although Jane has got the
big picture sorted out, she plans to organise the details as she
goes along. A bit of research has of course helped a lot - she
knows, for example, that it's a lot cheaper to buy trans-Siberian
tickets in Moscow than book them from the UK. She'll use
point-to-point tickets in Eastern Europe, buying as she goes to
keep her options open.