Ok...recaping from the seedy internet cafe in Moscow...We departed the internet cafe in an old russian elevator that may have served as a dumb-waiter in earlier centuries. It was the size of a rabit cage and covered in luscious woodgrain, just like the rankarina television (maybe its birthplace). The steel gates slammed shut, the elevator descended. Then the bloody thing started slapping side to side and dropped two feet in a mighty crash. The cable must of broke...

Allo. I'll try and condense this email like juice. This place is seedy and my stomach clock just rang.One thing I forgot to mention in my last email, which is an important mommento (i.e. an alcholic landmark), is that I drank fermented horse milk in Mongolia! Smelt like off watermelon and tasted like it came from the wrong pipe (bladder that is!!) it is not something you would drink at the local pub. Served with mangie old curd and sloppy butter, it is one vo...

have you ever been in a chest freezer for over an hour? me neither, but this place must be bloody close. we arrived in irkutsk, siberia just after 8am this morning to be greeted with minus two and snow. not the warm welcome we were after, but certainly keeps you awake. (just like to say that this russian keyboard doesn't have capitals. it keeps every letter at the same equal level...a kinda fair alpha system)continuing on from my last elongated sars email wit...