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Moscow Day 2

We showed up at the Red Square for the second day straight only to again see it closed up with heavy metal gates that reminded us of what the ter Iron Curtain meant. So no corpse viewing, this means that we missed out on seeing both corpses that we wanted to see (Mao Tse Tung in Beijing and...

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Big_T on September 6, 2008 from Moscow, Russia

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The Reds

Right, Moscow. What's in store? i'd been prepared for nasty service and misery by the first night in Irkutsk. I wasn't expecting any help from anyone either, in any way shape or form. But i have to stop having these pre-conceived ideas cos, with the odd exception (see the end of this post), most...

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adamski752 on September 6, 2008 from Moscow, Russia

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Moscow Day 1

As we got up early, we decided to walk the 20 minutes down to the Kremlin and Red Square. We noticed the same as yesterday, Moscow is a stunningly beautiful city... Some amazing architecture, stunningly beautiful old streets and laneways, but the customer service throughout Russia is abysmal,...

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Big_T on September 5, 2008 from Moscow, Russia

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Trans Siberian Irkutsk-Moscow

77 hours on a train, and it all went smoother than clockwork... We got on and spent an hour remarking how much better the train was than the Mongolia one had been... The "Baikal" is a gem amongst Trans-Siberian/Mongolian/Manchurian trains. Clean, spacious and comfortable are 3 good words to...

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Big_T on September 4, 2008 from Moscow, Russia

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The Trans-Siberian

Here we go...the time has come for the journey this whole trip is based around. a massive 77 hour marathon on the same train. 3 nights on a train in the same cabin. I didn't really know how this was going to be. would it be boring as hell, or fun and games. I reality it was neither. it was very...

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adamski752 on September 1, 2008 from Irkutsk, Russia

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The Trans-Mongolian erm...smugglers

With a happy heart and a Spring in my step i got onto the first of the big famous trains that was gonna get me to moscow. I was still shellshocked from the Ulan Batar situation so i was a bit skeptical about this train ride. I would love, at this point, to say that from here on, it got smoother...

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adamski752 on August 30, 2008 from Irkutsk, Russia

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The Soviet Union

Finally, i have arrived in russia. the point of the whole trip was to travel on a train through russia. And Irkutsk is my first port of call. I was not impressed when i got off the train. a bland station with pissy corridors and scowling locals. At least mongolians smiled when they weren't being...

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adamski752 on August 30, 2008 from Irkutsk, Russia

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The Train Ride Ulaan Bataar to Irkutsk

Thanks for your comments guys, I am glad that someone is reading this, and Stephen, the water was clean, but I did dry it a couple of times. We went to the worlds worst supermarket to get supplies for the train ride. Luckily we did because there were to be no meals for 25 hours. They didn't...

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Big_T on August 29, 2008 from Irkutsk, Russia

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Listvyanka, Russia (Lake Baikal)

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wprasek on August 27, 2008 from Listvyanka, Russia

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First inner trip ever

We don't know exactly how many there are. But they number in the tens of thousands. They are everywhere among us. They intend to tear down the world as we know it. And there are more on the way. No, not al-Qaida; I'm talking about bloggers. What's a blogger? While it may sound like...

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travel102 on May 12, 2008 from Moscow, Russia

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