Well, here we go again, another day, another train.....left Irkutsk station at 9pm and climbed on to a very different train from the last - this time packed with Europeans - don't know where all the Russians and Mongolians were but we shared the carriage with backpackers from Germany, France, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Finland, Ireland, UK, Poland and even a guy who lives just down the road from us in edinburgh. No more need for gesturing which was a welcome relief for a while but it did feel wierd to be 'back in Europe again' for a while. We shared our compartment with 2 Dutch girls who were lovely and were travelling for 5 weeks. Somehow we became the compartment where everyone decided to sit and have a vodka party which was interesting
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