Nigel: Our next destination was Moscow which is famous for several things. These include it being the capital of Russia, the Kremlin, and Manchester Untied's famous 2008 Champions League victory over Chelsea. First destination....the football stadium. To get to Moscow from St Petersburg there are various trains which you can catch but we opted for the bullet train which takes approximately 4 hours. We had been on a similar train previously in China but with s...

Nigel: We took a flight from Berlin to St Petersburg which was probably one of the worst flights we have ever taken. The actual flight was ok it was more the condition of the interior, the food they gave and the staff that worked there. We flew with a company called Areoflot which is one of the national carriers of Russia and at the time of booking we were unaware that they partnered Man Utd. We are sure the airline is good but we didn't have that good of an ...

So the journey begins.............Nigel: After spending several weeks enjoying the UK weather (for a change), the time soon arrived for us to set off on our journey. We are not train enthusiasts in the slightest but we decided to try and do 3 train journeys between the UK and Hong Kong (Eurostar, Trans-Siberia, and Beijing to Tibet). We arrived into London a day before catching the Eurostar and we stayed in a hotel just around the corner from the station. The pla...