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We have our first travellers embarking on a true low carbon adventure! Emily and Verity are two bright young girls who’ve been saving their hard-earned pennies since finishing their A-levels in July. As we speak they are starting to navigate the streets of Brussels, and I’m sure they’ll be glad to be on a rail network that isn’t British!

With a lot of courage and a sensible amount of organisation they will be making their way all the way to India by train and blogging about the experience here. Using a combination of couchsurfing, hostels, and homestays, the girls are certain to engage with each culture in an authentic way that only surface travel can provide.

Here’s their rough itinerary:

• Brussels
• Cologne
• Warsaw
• Moscow
• Irkutsk
• Ulan-Bator
• Beijing
• Kathmandu
• Delhi

…and their route is plotted out on this map.

As well as writing blogs, Loco2 has provided them with a phone so that they can leave podcasts from the trains themselves (fingers crossed they get signal in the middle of Siberia). So thank you to Emily and Verity for sharing their experience with Loco2 and the wider world, and best of luck to them on the first leg of the journey. We look forward to hearing all about it!

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