Suze goes overseas

St Petersburg…what can I say? It quickly became one of my favourite places in the world. It had a very different feeling to the drabness and darkness of Moscow. This was an upbeat, cultural and enjoyable place to visit. Day 1 started with an early…

The train trip to Moscow resulted in a cabin with two Russian guys and an older Russian woman. They seemed to share their time between the corridor and the cabin, obviously disliking each other’s behaviour. The guys were nice though, a little too much at…

Leaving at two o’clock in the afternoon (Moscow time) and arriving in Yekaterinburg at four o’clock in the afternoon (Moscow time) two days later, this journey was the longest stretch on the train. It was also fairly uneventful, with people preferring to stay in their…

The UB-Irkutsk train was the second longest and definitely the worst train journey of the trip. It started off in flying colours with the arrival of a Mongolian family on the Mongolian side of the Russia-Mongolia border, where we had arrived at some point in…

I arrived at the train station bright and early to catch the first of the train legs. I then met Vicki and Suzy, mother and daughter from England, who were to be my travelling companions for the next two weeks. We got comfortable on the…