Irkutsk (Siberia) By Miriam xo
February 23rd 2009 And now to Russia. After a 30hour train journey (where the high points included yet wnother game of scrabble and an interesting tinned peach eating episode-(see pictures) we arrived in Irkusk, a town bordering Lake Baikal. Not only the worlds biggest lake (the distance from end to end is the same as that from Moscow to St Petersburg) but one which houses thousands of species, 75% of which are idig
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