A little slice of London in Siberia

Irkutsk

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April 5th 2008
My few hours kip didn’t happen, you would thing that being on a train for 5 days and doing nothing but sleeping, reading and eating I would be wide awake and raring to go. No I was knackered, I did set the alarm but slept through it and 10:30 there was a knock on the door but I had to make my excuses. Looks like my complaints about the mattress were totally unfounded as I went straight back to i ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more