Exile sure ain't what it used to be
June 9th 2012 After a train trip that lived up to expectations (12 hours of actual moving on the train, 6 hours of inexplicably sitting on the platform doing nothing, 6 hours of border processing), we arrived in Ulan-Ude at the sparky hour of 11pm. After a quick glimpse of the giant Lenin head in the city square it was off to the hotel. The next morning we shivered our way onto the bus, with the expectation of
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