Train 56 - Moscow to St Petersburg
October 20th 2012 It was like a scene from the battle of Waterloo in compartment 12 - 16 on train 56 due to depart Moscow at 2040hrs.
I was first to arrive at the station after an uneventful journey and made my way to my cabin on carriage number three. Seated on the bottom bunk was a gloomy looking Russian man in his late fifties holding his head between his hands. The Aussie sisters soon arrived and we began th
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