Today began late, as breakfast in the guesthouse doesn’t start until 9am. Breakfast consisted in whole of; bread, pancakes, porridge, sausage, cheese and egg and also yoghurt. Our guide turned up and handed over our train tickets for the rest of the trip to Berlin, but of course they are all grouped together and I got volunteered to look after them all. This morning we drove down to the Listyanka ferry to go over the Angara River, which happens to be the only ...

.... continued. The Russian border crossing started with a very young soldier asking to see our passports, which he did, and then passed back to us. We were then visited by 2 more officers; one of whom took my passport, and one took Todd’s. We were asked to remove our glasses to check if we matched our visa and passport photos and then there was much scanning of the visa page and our main page. They each had a scanning machine to check the validity of both. Th...