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Our carriage attendent knocking snow from underneath the train.

November 24th 2008
Hello again, we've arrived in Siberia! The train journey from Moscow to Irkutsk was fantastic. It was everything we'd hoped for and we're so glad we went all the way with no stops! There's no way we can convey how good it was in one blog entry because so many funny things happened. But I'll have a go..... We set off on Thursday lunchtime. Unfortunately we were on a slow train- one of the one ... 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

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tristanandcharlie

We're travelling from the UK to China to take up a teaching post in Shandong Province from Jan-Sept 09. We leave the UK in November 08 and fly to Tallinn, Estonia. We then cross the boarder in to Russia and travel to St. Petersburg then Moscow where we'll set off on the Trans-Siberian Railway. At Lake Baikal we will head south through Mongolia; arriving in Beijing by Christmas. In January we will make our way to Zibo where we will be teaching English until September. We'll try and keep our blog up to date. Hope you enjoy reading it! Update: We have a new job and we're staying in China ... full info

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