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March 12th 2009

Published: March 16th 2009

And so after a very long and interrupted nights train journey (border control at 3am where we had to take all our bags through individually) we arrived in Latvia at 11. We had met a group of students studying at an international school in St Petersburg on the coach who were going for a short trip to Latvia for a couple of days - we overheard that they were staying in a youth hostel and then real... Read Full Entry

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Lilly, James, Miriam and Alice

thefoursome

we are 4 young whippersnappers off on our gap year travels from hong kong to england by train via as many places as we can afford =) Below is our planned route: And here for anyone who's interested, is the approximate itinerary for what is happening. TRANS-SIBERIAN 11th Feb: leave HK on the train for Beijing 12th Feb: arrive Beijing 13th - 14th Feb: in Beijing 15th - 18th Feb: in Mongolia 19th Feb: on board the train 20th - 22nd Feb: at Lake Baikal 23rd Feb: on board the train 24th - 27th Feb: in Ekaterinburg 28th Feb - 2nd March: in Moscow 3rd - 5th March: in S... full info

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alice with the rose

james bought it for us girls along with a chocolate bar to celebrate national womens day, march 8th :)

mim and lilly

having a serious and in depth discussion (ahem argument) about whether the feathers were real feather or fake. lilly won. mim is stupid. =P

the cool twirly staircase at the hostel

eating breakfast on our last morning

16th March 2009

Caroline
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Impressed
I AM impressed! Was wondering when Alice might get around to writing something..... All the I's and me's seemed to be in the right places AND you have not only heard of crenallations but could spell them. Do I sound patronising? :-) xxxx

16th March 2009

Laima
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YAY
Reading your blog has never been so much fun! haha. I absolutely LOVE the pic by my clock!!! tis awesome thankyou =) =) =) and i'm glad you found that padlocked bridge too. I need to have a tourist trip to Latvia....half the monuments are new to me! Sounds like you had a brill time there, I feel very proud :D Plus the kitchen where you stayed looked uncannily like my relatives flat in Riga! Anywho, must be off. Lots of love x x x x

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