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Days 29 to 31: Listvyanka, Lake Baikal and Irkutsk
... snooze was in order and crashed out for the day. The guest house was decked out in some pretty lovely Russian décor (check out the pictures) with straw/wollen walls that made the rooms pretty warm but did nothing to keep out the sound. So when the rather frisky elderly couple in the adjoining room had finished their midday entertainment we managed to catch up on some sleep and woke up in the afternoon ready to see this amazing lake. The water front is a bit of a ...
Days 25 to 29: On the Trans-Manchurian train
... the best of the following vodkas; Diplomat, Beluga Export or Russian Standard Gold?
During our first 24 hours we passed highlights such as the Mytishchinsky monument factory, yep you read it correctly, this was a factory that’s sole purpose was to make statues of Lenin and Stalin so that every village could have one! We didn’t really see this factory because we passed it at night time but we liked the idea of a statue factory, it’s a bit like a ...
Living life on the train with a young Russian coup
Boarded the train in Ekat and 5 minutes later were joined by a young couple who spoke minimum English and we speak 3 words. Our amusement for the day was to watch Sasha eat...tomatoes, salami,cheese,cukes, 1/2rotten apple, banana, 1/2 a melon, sunflower seeds, some ?? Black seeds,cookies. We waited ...
Noisy conductors
8.30
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
Then, our cabin door is unlocked from the outside and a conductor looks in before saying "sleeping". With that, he slides the door closed and locks it again.
In a sleep state Jen and I wonder what is going on. In a panic I climb out of bed and look out into the corridor. We're stopped at a nondescript station, no-one's in the corridor and a few passengers are on the platform buying things from vendors.
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The morning after the night before
"That was THE WORST nights sleep i've ever had" Jen yawns!
I open the blind an inch for a little light in the cabin. I couldn't agree more: when I finally did get to sleep, I had weird dreams about strange people in strange places, I tossed and turned all night trying to get comfortable on the solid, rock hard beds/seat. I find some blankets and decide that I will sleep on them tonight, rather than put them over me.
I pop to the loo in my ...
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