Aba Novokuznetsk

... straight back to sleep - there was a time I couldn't sleep on the train but not anymore. Hours later at 10.30 after we crossed the yenisey river there was a stop at Krasnoyarsk city where I was too lazy to get off C. arrives back with ice cream for brekker, yum. I don't know what happened in cattle class but a lady came and vacuumed our cabin, fancy! Spent the day reading and writing and then the tea time stop was at Mariimk. Later we were in a trivia ...

... t sorted out accommodation yet so we could do that all together when we reach Mongolia. In the evening Kasja, Malin and I went down to Shane, Chris and Jeff's cabin for a game of travel monopoly. My shady dealings and following smugness earnt me the nickname of "Mr Burns" but it was Kasja who won in the end. Where dice are involved even the shrewdest business minds can come unstuck against fluky Swedish dice rolls.

... tea) like football and the girls like Madonna and cheeky Rooslyn asked us how much we earn - to his mother's astonishment.... We resorted to learning the Russian names of extremely useful words like 'flowers' & 'hammer' (both of which I'm sure we'll need in Russia) from little Medeena's picture playing cards. For those of you new to the Cyrillic alphabet, it has 32 letters many of which are completely new shapes or are ...

... and grew a beard. The Moldavians graciously accepted our offer, the Mongolian declined maybe on religious grounds I'm not sure. Continuing the conversation we found out that Victor had a brother, supported Chelsea, was a student, and was going to London in 2007. Sergei was going to Ulaan Bataar where he had got a job working with machines. The Mongolian had 2 sons I think was also a student and had a sister who was a doctor, fluent in Russian, Mongolian, English and spoke some ...