Hello Everyone, It has been one month since Russia and the harsh Siberian plains and I have only just begun to appreciate the difference in culture and the social structure between 'West' and 'Russia'. No doubt everyone who is reading this has heard of the stories and myths about the bodka, communism influences and the 'harsh' and arrogant people that leave in Siberia...well basically this was what I also had to go by when I first boarded the train in Mongolia....

The first blog overseas is long over due.....and you will have to wait just alittle longer. Writing this in Moscow, I have decided that I will write about one country at a time rather one city. I would probably spend more time writing than actually sightseeing and been a Japanese tourist. The Russian leg hence is coming along well with my last city to be Saint Petersburg tomoz (3 days). From there into Estonia (where I will type up the blog I have slowly co...