Today started out pretty much the way you would expect after last night's antics. With me getting up just in time for breakfast, eating breakfast, copping a lot of jokes about how drunk I was and then going back to bed until 1pm, waking up watching some TV and then at about 3pm coming to the awful realization that I was starving and that I would have to go all the way into the town, and sit down at a café to get food. That however, is where the expectations ...

I woke up early this morning, again on moving train and still not fully adjusted having crossed five different time zones over the last three days. I woke my group up and we went about organizing breakfast from whatever food we had left over from out three day journey. Andy still could not find his horse meat. Just before we arrived in Irkutsk, Colin put the tin of horse meat in Andy's jacket pocket. Hilarious. We all packed up and got off the train and m...

Welcome back to the Trans-Mongolian Railway! Again, I am finding it difficult to discern one day from another on this epic three and a half day journey across Russia to Irkutsk, Siberia and then onto the small beautiful town of Listvyanka. As before I am going to attempt to describe the events of this journey, in no particular order, not because I'm going for some crazy new writing style, but because when you get caught in the wave of crossing five different ...

Little bit sad as today was my last day in Moscow, a city which despite its rather grumpy population I have really come to love and think of as home. It has also been a day where I have lost some really fun people from my tour like Tim and Louise. That's one of the awful parts of my job, you meet these really awesome people and the you have to put up with losing them and potentially never seeing them again. This morning our first order of business after br...

Last Kremlin tour with Helen this morning, but first Andy and I decided to get up early to check out the famous Ismailovo markets. We walked over behind the old Gamma Delta hotel, but they were still pretty much setting up. We decided to have a coffee in the café there, well Andy decided to have a coffee and just ordered me one. I swear I've drunk more coffee on this trip that I have in my entire life. At least I know the Russian word for milk so I didn't ...