I woke up this morning after three and a half days on a train, in my makeshift seat bed, still moving. Rocking from side to side, bouncing up and down, slowing down and speeding up. Thank goodness we were getting off today, this is starting to get old. We reached Yaroslavysky station in Moscow, bang on time at 1:58pm. I was so relieved to see the giant Moscova sign on top of the station, Beijing to Moscow another epic journey completed. I walked my group int...

Three days on a train, never ever thought I would do something like this and still don't really know how to describe it or how to begin writing about it. All three days have meshed into one long day of random jumbled events and anecdotes, so I think random is the way to go. Carolyn and Carol have a bit too much to drink and attempt to convince me that one of the guys working in the dining car is a vampire. I look up at the man, who is pale as the new moon, g...

I love little towns like this in the middle of no where. I really don't understand people who say, What are we supposed to do here for two days? Relax. Chill out. Appreciate the quiet life. Breathe the fresh air. That's pretty much what Kate, Gen, Moy, Andy and I did today. We started off our day with breakfast cooked by a very enthusiastic Nikolai, we had traditional Russian pancakes. We then all trooped down to the tourist information to attempt to org...

I woke myself up this morning and thank god everyone had set alarms. I was pretty hung over and I was fighting to keep it together. I managed to get everyone up and ready and then off the train at Irkutsk, where thankfully our driver was waiting and had actually come on the train to get us. He walked us out of the station and straight onto a waiting bus, where he put on a DVD about seals and everyone proceeded to fall asleep for half an hour while that was o...

We left our hotel in St Petersburg today at 8am and headed back to the bus station to catch our bus to Tallinn, Estonia. We boarded the bus at 9am and it took us about 7 hours to get there. The bus was amazing, it had power sockets and free wifi….makes the old Greyhound bus I usually get down to Canberra look obsolete. We crossed the border between Russia and Estonia about two hours in, at Ivangorod. Most of us went through smoothly, except Ying who is Ma...