Just at the end of day 1 on the train, been through 2 time zones, eaten 1 pot noodle, settling down to read a book. Mrs p

Welcome from Kungur. Well techniclly we're still in Perm but todays trip took us to the Kungur Ice Caves, which are about 100km from Perm. As we didn't have a computer there we are doing a belated blog. The Kungur Ice Caves are awesome and nothing like the minimal amount of info we could find on the net led us to believe. We thought that they would be practically impossible to find and even harder to get into. . . not so. We found the apparently new tourist inf...

Hello everybody, Yesterday we went for an explore of Perm. We are definetly out of the Euro zone now. As evidenced most by the fact that none of the Menus are in English and nobody speaks it either!!! Dinner on the first night was very nice - Salmon Steak for me and Beef in Mushroom sauce for Claire after much gesticulating the waitress and us were tired and we thought we had it - until we realised we hadn't ordered any sides and they didn't come with the meal...

Quick one just for those who are counting. One and a half months in Seven and a half to go. Mr P

Well this has proved fun!!! So yesterday morning we woke up all relaxed and refreshed after going to the ballet. Claire was snoozing and I was looking through the paperwork for the train. When she was awake I remarked how I was surprised that the train to Perm only took 3 hours. She said I think not - it takes a day at least... I pointed out how we were getting the train at 12:30 (just after midnight) on the 20th and that we were due to arrive at 3am (mosow t...