After four nights and four days on the train from Irkutsk, having travelled around 7000 kms and having crossed 5 time zones, we have finally arrived in Moscow - stinky, overfed and showing early but distinct signs of cabin fever, but incredibly excited to be here! Thanks to our previous train trips, we all felt as if we had got our ‘train legs’ - and it was with this new confidence that we boarded the lengthiest leg of our Trans Mongolian/Siberian journey. Informed by the successes and lessons of the previous trips, we had hit the supermarkets on our departure day and topped up our remaining food supplies with some essentials (and some goodies too!). Once boarded, we went about making the kupe (compartment) our ‘home’ for the next four days - bags packed neatly away,
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