If you want to get an impression of what my train castle on the Trans Mongolian train trip looked like, please step inside.
Tag: russia
The Trans Mongolian : Getting on the train
Moscow, 27th February 2007 – Yaroslawsky station
And then you are standing there and think : What could be the train to Beijing?
This wasn’t the most fun day of the trip, but I think I’ve found my train, thanks to someone writing Beijing/Peking in Cyrillic on a piece of paper. Now that I am here in the evening, the evening trains are actually displayed on the time table, they weren’t earlier today, which caused some of the panic.
(Can you guess which train I am supposed to take from the names on the this time table?)
The question today is …
will she actually make it to get on that train? Well good question, I am not entirely sure at the moment.
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Mockba : Underworld
The title sounds more sinister than it is meant to be. I am very fine! I found a map which has both the Russian and the touristy names on it, and it makes live so much easier in Moscow. It is absolutely necessary to have with you if you want to find your way without having to annoy people all the time. Moscow and I are good friends now, all the fears of getting lost are gone, the weather is still absolutely amazing, cold, a deep blue sky, snow, sunshine and even the moon is there to pop up on some of my pictures.
Like A Stranger in Moscow
I am in Moscow, that part of the mission is accomplished. But it is not easy!
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24 emails and 5 international phonecalls later …
and I am not exaggerating, but I think I have everything booked now for the Journey of a Lunatic.
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