Irkutsk and Lake Baikal
June 22nd 2008 We arrived into Irkutsk at 06.03am exactly as stated on our tickets. We were met by a lady called Tatiana who was very softly spoken and rather sleepy looking. We pulled up outside our homestay and Tatiana got on her phone looking pretty confused. Turned out that our homestay had been given the wrong dates and were actually out of town in their country Dacha. After a few hasty phonecalls we were
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