Irked in Irkutsk
August 23rd 2015 Actually I'm out of Russia, and in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia. Moron that later.
I'd gotten back to Irkutsk about 11.30pm after a long day on the train around Lake Baikal. The hotel looked pretty flash, a number of business suits coming and going, some classic kgb suits with dark glasses (at 10pm) as hotel security. The check-in counter was overrun by a Chinese tour group. This is becoming a recurri
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