Well we have finally made it to Moscow. Arrived in the dark and rain at 6 pm and spent the next hour looking for the tube we needed to catch to our hostel. Surprisingly all the signs are in Russian so we didn't have a clue?? Maybe the last 6 days on the train could have been better spent learning some Russian rather than playing cards and hiding from Comrade Devito!! Managed to find the hostel eventually and it is fab, the room is not too hot, it has a light, a s...

Well it seems we are the only passengers left on the train although there were only about 40 of us to begin with! Unfortunately the lack of customers has not improved the customer service, although Comrade Devito now seems bored with persecuting us so largely leaves us alone. He still persists in not putting any lights on in the carriage but we have torches (ha-ha!) The weather has remained much the same today blue skies and -17°C despite this we did brave out...

We now have a few more passengers in our carriage (all Russian). A couple of them already smell of BO and there are no showers so it doesn't bode well for the next few days. They have also been getting off at stations and buying kippers off the hawkers, so the carriage now has a very distinctive smell. Nick and I have been trying to spray the corridor when they are not looking; me with deodorant and Nick with his foot spray!! On one of our station stops we stru...

Well today has been a far less eventful day thankfully. Spent a few hours passing Lake Baikal which was absolutely stunning, snow covered mountains rising from a sparkling blue lake. We are assuming it was Lake Baikal as we have no idea any more where we are or in fact what the time is! We were helpfully given a timetable in English when we left Beijing but have been unable to match anything on there to our stops. Also when we have arrived in railway stations t...

Well we had been warned before embarking on this train journey that 6 days on the train is extremely boring - oh how wrong they were if today is anything to go by! Our day started at 3 am with a loud knocking on our cabin door, when we opened it there were 4 Chinese Immigration officers peering in, as it was dark they took it upon themselves to switch our lights on and after we had answered a series of questions they went away. They however returned an hour lat...