Trans-Siberian Experience Phase 1

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Welcome to our Trans-Siberian Experience blog.

Today we begin our journey across Asia into Russia with some highlights of our last couple of days in Beijing. Thanks for joining us on the journey. We hope that you enjoy it as much as we will.

There is nothing like arriving in Beijing in the middle of a couple of days of a tropical storm that drenched the whole of the east coast of China and produced major flooding in a number of areas. In the middle of this the Riches and ourselves sloshed our way around Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. We followed it up the next day with a trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu in even heavier rain.

Attached are a couple of photos from those two days that we managed despite the rain.

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Photos

Forbidden City
Suspicious Lion ready to pounce

Temple of Heaven
Lamppost into Narnia perhaps?

Great Wall
The gondola ride to the top in the pouring rain

The Great Wall Tower
Peter and Vini

The Great Wall
The wall running west vanishing into the rain

The Great Wall
'Singing in the rain' on the wall

Great Wall
View from in the watch tower

Forbidden City
Julie at the entrance bridges

Comments

[Chbell]

Phase 1
Shame about the rain. Still, it doesn't look like it has dampened your spirits. Look forward to the next phase. Chris B

[Tiggy]

Hello from Woolo
Great to hear from you guys. Enjoy the experience. Life group meeting next Tuesday at John and Rose's place. cheers, Julianne and Ross

[camal]

sydney town
Weather much the same here - no I lie it is now cold and sunny. We have just had lunch with Christine, IS who has been staying with Ricky. Ricky has been running some training sessions with various staff and partners. Christine is an impressive lady who I think does a very hard job. Yesterday I unpacked the kiln and have a studio full of pots that look pretty nice (even if I do say so). I need to put together 25 pieces for India by Friday so it may be a busy week. During the firing the nights got down to 0 degrees. I have never been so cold out at the farm. We all huddled around the kiln even when it warmed slightly. The first day was very windy and nasty but after the wind dropped the days were beautiful - clear and sunny. Looking forwards to how the train trip unfolds. Barb