Day 2 - Irkutsk
July 24th 2009 We arrived to Irkutsk at around 6 am local time.
The train station was the same as a train station in any other city - throngs of loud taxi drivers, some drunk and homeless people, dodgy characters, travelers with various items of luggage.
We found a taxi which would take us to our Couchsurfing host - a girl called Lena.
Now, Mike had couchsurfed before, when he'd needed to a place
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