Managed to get a bit of a sleep in today before heading down to breakfast at 8:30am. Buckwheat and sausages cooked by Nicholai, which I actually like. After breakfast all the clients went out on activities and I stayed in my room, watching TV and doing paperwork. At about 1pm however, I had to venture out to get food, I went down to Sury Mury's café and had my usual Siberian meat and dumplings in broth. I then stopped for a last look at Lake Baikal, again ...

This morning began with a lot of waiting around and much teasing from the guys about my new Russian friend. Although, it could have been much worse, Andy was thoroughly expecting the walk of shame. After breakfast I packed up all my stuff and hung around until 11am waiting for our transfer to Irkutsk. Mr. Maxim our driver arrived on time and I loaded up the van and said a big good bye to Nicholai, who managed to communicate to me that I should come back to ...

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...