The first three days of this trip were spent on Iceland. I wrote parts of this while I was still in Reykjavik, but it has been so difficult to upload this post on the blog! We arrived on Iceland on Thursday afternoon, and went straight to the blue lagoon. It was an amazing experience! Outerworldly, like when I was in Mongolia a year ago. It was soo cold and windy in the air, but once we got into the lagoon, it was very nice. Some spots, the water was so hot t...

We are ready to go on the train in only an hour and a half, just a last update from Moscow, before we probably won't get online until we are in Mongolia. Today we have been real tourists and done all the sightseeing, seen Lenin's dead body in the mausoleum, seen St. Basil's cathedral, Kremlin and Gorky park. Russians are still not that friendly, we have only seen two people smile so far, and they still keep talking Russian to us even though we tell them we can't...

Til dere Norske, så kommer jeg til å skrive denne bloggen på Engelsk for det meste, slik at alle kan forstå den :-) We have arrived safely in Moscow now. Everything so far has gone very smoothly, and our hotel is really nice, probably the nicest we'll have on the whole trip! We are really tired, and haven't gone outside the hotel at all, just had a buffet dinner, and I am very soon ready for a good night's sleep. My first impression of Russia is that it is ...