Backpacking trip, fall, 2007 (Prologue)/背包游， 秋， 2007 （序）－

I love traveling, because I am an art museum geek, I collect coins from different countries, and I love telling stories. Havejust finished a backpacking trip in Europe, I am putting up picturesand short essays on the web for friends and family. Hence this blog. Theitenary of my trip, in the form of a very skinny loop, was: Helsinki,then to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Lviv, Suceava, Brasov, Bucharest,Istanbul, Sofia, Bratislava, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn and back toHelsinki to fly out. Don't know some of these places? Neither did I before I planned for this trip :o). Stay tuned, will be uploading pics, as soon as I figure out how to use this, umm, blog thingy... Therewill be a Chinese and an English section for each of the articles. Theyare similar, but with some different details. You can evenmake a game of picking out the differences :o). Hope you would have as much fun reading as I have writing it. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ 为了方便广大群众和自己， 我准备把今年背包游的见闻写成博客。 我的行程是：Helsinki, then to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Lviv, Suceava, Brasov,Bucharest, Istanbul, Sofia, Bratislava, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinnand Helsinki。 我会把每个文章写一个中文版 一个英文版。 它们大致相同， 但各会有些特别的细节， 大家慢慢看吧，－嘿嘿。