Hello again! I'm afraid any further updates are unlikely to be as exciting as last time so I apologise in advance! After Alexander got off the train he was immediately replaced by another military guy, although this time a fair bit older and not quite my type :)Once again, his english was limited but he was still quite chatty! We worked out from another turn at charades that he is a helicopter pilot. He brought some cognac with him that he was keen to share but...

Zdrastvuitye! So last you heard we were about to get on the train at Vladivostok. We'd met Anna and were wondering what it was going to be like. I joked that we were bound to be sharing with a pair of attractive young guys, maybe backpackers themselves whilst Kairsten thought that a little optimistic and was more likely to be Vladimir and Olga, a middle-aged couple with no english. After discovering that the trains all ran on Moscow time and it was actually our t...

Wow! So when I said that I was looking for adventure, high stress airport drama isn't entirely what I had in mind! My flight from Sydney airport was very easy, it left on time and I was sitting next to a handsome young Italian guy named Matteo who spoke excellent english with a very pleasant accent. We got on pretty well and had a very nice time chatting about travelling, it made the first 12 or so hours go past remarkably quickly! He was getting off at Shanghai ...