JOURNAL
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Small snakey canals and cobble stone streets; St Petersburg
2012-05-28 04:59:00 UTC
Arriving at Moscow train station at about 11pm it was absolutely buzzing with all sorts of colourful characters! Our train finally departing at 12:50 am and we were pleased to leave behind the mush of army men and police gazing at us. The four birth cabins were the cleanest and…
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Moscow; an underground of marble & a nightlife of mayhem
2012-05-25 13:22:00 UTC
With a bit of a late departure from Suzdal we were finally on the last leg of the vodka train! The bus transfer was about four hours…delayed by pretty heavy traffic coming into the city. The time was passed watching the rest of avatar followed by a Russian cartoon about…
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Kazan, Kremlin and sipping honey beer in Suzdal
2012-05-14 12:23:00 UTC
The train trip was really a blur- the first 24 hours spent catching up on essential sleep the first evening with a ladies card game and drinks… Then came day number 2. Day 2 - not too easily recalled, began with a midday bottle of vodka on the restaurant cart…
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Caviar to quad biking at Lake Biakal
2012-05-07 11:19:00 UTC
Getting only about 4 hours sleep on our train journey, we woke to a russian woman shaking our feet to get ready for our arrival into Irkusk. Stepping of the train we were greeted by Costa, our Russian honcho who definitely looks the part; strong jaw line, thick accent and…
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Independent Ulan Ude
2012-05-06 10:37:00 UTC
Back on the train we were bound for Russia, but not without a lengthy and intimidating border crossing process from the Russian guards. What we thought was going to be about a 12 hour over night journey turned into 24 hours. However some Mongolian red wine and a little bit…
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Ger camps, nomads and desert. Real Mongolia.
2012-05-02 07:37:00 UTC
After our much needed stop revive survive at the western coffee shop, the 5 of us girls headed onto the local supermarket to pick up some goods in preparation for our epic train journey. With a 9:30pm departure we were dropped at the station by our not so attentive or…
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North China/Inner Mongolia, all aboard the Vodka Train
2012-04-28 07:18:00 UTC
After stocking up on snacks and booze, with our bags pack the twelve us were ready and raring for our first train journey towards inner Mongolia (still within china).We were all pleased to be apart of the tour when we were told that we had a bus transfer to our…
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BRILLIANT Beijing & that GREAT Wall
2012-04-26 06:37:00 UTC
Beijing has been the best. After arriving off the bullet train we waited in a taxi line for at least an hour, watching over one hundred taxis pass before it was our turn. (We know this because we counted them and turned it into a rhyming song.) Arriving at the…
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Exploring Xian & singing in Shanghai
2012-04-20 05:58:00 UTC
Flying into Xian late and lost we were just happy to finally find our hostel after getting off the airport shuffle in the city. Chloe and I ended up at the bar drinking 20 yuen pints of carlesburg ($3) whilst Eric tried to sleep off her fever. Waking this morning…
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Hong Kong to Yangzhou, & the ancient city of Xing Ping
2012-03-29 01:36:00 UTC
Time to relax and time to blog from a rooftop bar in Yangshao at Monkey Jane’s. This week has been nothing short of eventful from the terrible flight to Kuala Lumpur to an over night bus trip through China
Hong Kong was wonderful, while we only spent two nights, we…
