Tourist Hotel Perm

... reality on the teain, I brought a multi ise sink plug which does the trick. The toilet opens up after you use it and the contents just simply drop on to the tracks they close it whilst at the stations which is a good thing! By the end of today we will have done 1814km thus far out of the 7865km journey. As I said I am looking forward to getting to Mongolia.

... Fernsehteam waren und eine Dokumentation über die Transsib machen. Wir haben also nur schnell unser ganzes Klumpat ins Abteil (Nr. 6 im Waggon 12) gebracht und dann gleich ein Interview gegeben. Sehr schräg. Nachdem die ganze Anfangsaufregung vorbei war haben wir uns unser Abteil gemütlich hergerichtet. Am Anfang ist uns alles unglaublich eng vorgekommen, aber nach die erste Flasche Wein und das erste Bier offen war, haben wir uns schon wie zu Hause gef ...

En nyt tosta sijainnista ole yhtaan varma, kun ei tullu tarkemmin laitettua muistiin missa millonkin oltiin, mutta kylla ton pisteen ainakin samalla radalla pitais olla. Kolmas paiva tassa junassa. Raportoitavaa ei juuri ole. Junassa on tylsaa, tylsaa ja sita samaa. Tai olishan tas tietty kaikkee kivaa puuhaa, vaikka kielen opettelua, mut ei jaksa. Ainakaan taal ei voi kiirehtia mihinkaan. Aikaa tulee kaytettya lahinna nukkumiseen, syomiseen ja erilaisiin kirjallisiin- ja ...

... we got to see a lot of the town that we probably would have missed out otherwise. We saw a sign for a new Hilton Hotel but we couldn't see the actual building, so whether it is in progress or finished we are not quite sure. Mr Hilton certainly gets around doesn't he?!! Although our hotel in Perm was a little more expensive than we wanted to pay, it was a lovely hotel. Breakfast was a challenge! The menu was completely Russian and the girls on the desk didn't speak ...

... one of the family, Katia, would be our translator/guide on the 2 excursions we had booked!!!!!! In a city of a million people it really is a small world!! More updates as the computers and internet allow. Cheers Gordon P.S. Thanks to everyone for the birthday messages!! My actual birthday was a bit of a non event, the big treat was McDonalds for lunch & it was a real treat......that should sum up our current food situation...... Nat

... our carridge. He was from cambodia and was doing the whole train journey in one whole swoop, all 8 days on the train. He was a great guy, had all the time in the world for you. Once on the train we were soon joined by two men from Uzbekistan, who had the most amazing gold and silver teeth, the yonger of the two ( 26 ) took a real shine to merlin, and they sat together for up to 4 hours at a time teaching each other english and russian, he was a ...

La magie du transsiberien en platskarny (3e classe). Je crois bien etre le seul occidental dans le train. Le wagon est principalement compose de militaire et de toute une communaute tsigane. Cependant, je partage le compartiment essentiellement avec des Russes qui me traite avec tous les egards. Il y a d'abord Alex qui n'aime pas du tout les Tsiganes et me dit de faire attention car ces ...

When we stop Babushka's (old women) surround the train platform offering traditional food and snacks as well as the typical Russian souvenirs. Were travelling on the number 10 train which only runs about once a week, so its safe to say if you get off at one of the stops and then miss it you're in trouble and stuck in the middle of Siberia. which nearly did happen on ...

... in the carriage. Olga and Maria do 12 hours shifts for our carriage over the next couple of days. Talk to Sarah and Gerry over brekkie and get free cheese in exchange for salami. Take walk about of our carriage and carriage number 3 which has other people in our group. Raz's cabin has a off duty provodnitsa and good craic doing english/Russia sign language to make conversation. She has enormous bucket of wild berries to ...

... paperback, this 10.6 inch screen mini-laptop is a perfect companion for ultra-portable travel computing, wieghing in at less than 2kg (including the long lasting battery). The screen is brilliant for word processing or watching that latest DVD release and 30Gb of hard drive stores all the pictures from this odyssey with relative ease. Operating and graphics memory is suitable for intermediate graphics manipulation ...