Well as usual when I start, I can’t stop, so last night I managed to find a 24hr supermarket and get more supplies and get drunk. I think I went to bed around 2am. This morning I woke up with a hangover but this did have two benefits, firstly I managed to get to sleep without really noticing the absolutely loudest snoring I have ever heard keeping me awake for to long, I usually don’t mind people snoring when the make consistent repetitive sounds but this guy made different sounds every time he breathed, it was like he had a furry [View Full Entry]

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Well I must be getting used to the sleeping on the train thing as I had no problems last night, almost the whole 8 hours without waking. I quick wash and change of cloths and yet another tea, we were obviously in Russia by now and was glad I didn’t have to go through and customs/immigration crap again. Belarus and Russia must have some kind of agreement going on. Well my fist impression of Russia was that it was flat, there were the odd villages here and there that reminded me of Poland. Then every so often there were huge tower [View Full Entry]

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I had heard that sleeping on a train was very nice, like being rocked to sleep. Bollocks. For the most part it is quite smooth but if there is a jolt say every 15mins,then you are woken up, in torture circles I am sure it is called sleep deprivation. I suppose it’s another one of those things about train travel that I hope I will learn to ignore. The carriage is a little to warm as well, I am in t-shirts and jeans and I had the choice I would be in shorts, but the shorts in my bag were at [View Full Entry]

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Well I finally did it, today is d-day and after a hectic few days of trying to organise last minute train tickets (you think after 6 months I would have my arse in gear). I still left the flat in a bit of a state (sorry Kate) but I think it was 90% there, for those of you who don’t know the people I was going to rent out the flat to pulled out so if you know anybody who needs a one bed flat in Limehouse (recently redecorated with new kitchen) for about 310 a week then let me know. [View Full Entry]

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