Hello all, After the 4 days on the train and feeling rather dirty we have arrived in Irkutsk, it was 6am and freezing cold. We where met by our guide and taken to Lake Biakal which is around an hour away. It was a really pretty drive looks a lot like I imagine Canada too. As we drove past the Lake we could see it was nearly all frozen, which is mind boggling when you know that it is the same size as Belgium or nearly the same size as Switzerland! We arriv...

Hello people, It’s only been a few days but Herman is already having internet withdrawals!! So since our last update we have been on the train for 4 days, we shared with two Russian guys both called Max! One is in the Russian air force and the other is a security guard/boxer (that drinks a litre of vodka neat!) Both where very nice guys and we shared neat Russian vodka together. The days felt very long as we traveled through different time zones, we spent th...

Hello all the working people, he he he So yesterday we arrived in Vladimir at 9PM. After 2 hours of running around Moscow trying to find our train station as we have been sent to the wrong one by mistake we found it but then we could not get on the train as nobody seem to be able to help us locate the correct entrance to the platforms!!!!!!!In Vladimir we walked to our hotel (there is a picture of it, the yellow one) with our backpacks on and only a few blocks l...

Hi I thought I would do a little update while I wait for Herman to shower but it has taken me 25 mins to get this far as it is dial up internet soooo ssssllllooooowww! Yesterday we planned to see Lenin but aparantly he is busy! (It is closed until April, fyi Lenin's wife did not want him to be embalmed but the state did it anyway) we went to the Kremlin instead and it is really expensive and you dont get to see much either. But is was interesting the architectu...

Hello All We would like to start this blog with a big thank you to everyone for our leaving presents and cards as well as all the comments on here as well as the emails. Christina If I did not say goodbye to you before I left I am sorry but you were probably lucky as Mandy made me cry. By the way thank you Nan for the 30 sausage rolls and 20 meat pies and Joe for the chocolate cake they kept us going all the way to St Petersburg, and my answer to everyones qu...