Habitation
2018年3月31日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
The villages are still well spaced out, but there are more general signs that this is inhabited land. Herds of goats, wheel ruts, mines, a few fences around fields, and even a cat out for an eveningもっと詳しく
New train, new territory
2018年3月31日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Up to Ulan Ude, everything was ground I'd covered before. Sometimes without stopping, or while asleep, but I had been through it. Now we're into virgin territory.
This train seems more sociable thanもっと詳しく
To the datsan
2018年3月30日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
With only one whole and two half days to see all Ulan Ude has to offer - and with 2 of the main things on our list being some way out of town - Helen suggested we hire a driver and guide. It was anもっと詳しく
Giant head of Lenin
2018年3月30日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
What can I say? It's Lenin's head. And it's very big.
Stage 1 summary
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Rossia train (no.2) Moscow to Ulan Ude.
Weather: -3 - +15°C, but only really above freezing today. Coldest in the middle, warmest in the East (and the buds on the trees suggest a general trendもっと詳しく
Oscillate?!
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ 2 °C
Erm ....
No, I haven't tried it.
Buriatia
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ 2 °C
Arrived in Ulan Ude. Massive room.
Road to Ulan Ude
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ -1 °C
After leaving the lake, the train runs alongside the main road to Ulan Ude.
It's reached a practically tropical 8°C outside and there are visible buds on some of the trees, so we've had an iceもっと詳しく
Stupa!
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ -1 °C
You'll need a big screen for this, because I was too busy squeaking 'Stupa!' to take a picture until we were nearly past it. It's on the left.
Lake Baikal
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ 🌙 2 °C
The guidebook promised 'splendid views' after the first tunnel. It was not wrong. The lake ice may be thinning, but it is still a complete cover, frozen into waves and glistening in the low morningもっと詳しく
None aboard.
2018年3月29日, ロシア ⋅ 🌙 -1 °C
Irkutsk is the closest stop to Lake Baikal. The train has emptied - locals presumably going to the city, tourists are seeing the lake and then changing to the Mongolia train. Nobody got on, so ourもっと詳しく
Adventures in food
2018年3月28日, ロシア ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
Illanskaya, according to the guidebook, is one of the best stations to buy home cooked food from the platform traders. It turns out they are no longer allowed on the platforms, but lined up behind aもっと詳しく
Land of the silver birch
2018年3月28日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Woke still in the birch zone, but with decidedly thinning snow. Rivers are still frozen - solid enough for ice fishers to set their chairs out mid stream.
My time keeping system had reset itselfもっと詳しく
Novosibirsk nights
2018年3月27日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ -1 °C
I'd planned to tale a photo of the Novosibirsk sign, but it was 1 in the morning and cold. I stayed in bed.
Omsk
2018年3月27日, ロシア ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
Sadly, we don't also go through Tomsk.
Closest point to Kazakhstan
2018年3月27日, ロシア ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Siberia
2018年3月27日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 0 °C
In the early hours of this morning we crossed into Siberia. The temperature also rose to just above freezing, but you'd never know it by looking out of the window. Inside the train it is 28°C.もっと詳しく
A passion for trains
2018年3月27日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ -1 °C
The Trans Siberian handbook is written with train enthusiasts in mind. So the remarks about points of interest along the route include not only historical and geological features (and which town isもっと詳しく
Exiting Europe
2018年3月27日, ロシア ⋅ 🌬 -1 °C
The border between Europe and Asia. We're in the dark, while invisible men crash about making lots of noise preparing to leave.
Seems oddly familiar.
But we know where we're we're going. We have aもっと詳しく
Perm-afrost
2018年3月26日, ロシア ⋅ 🌬 0 °C
Perm 2 is the last stop in Europe. By the time we wake in the morning we'll have passed Yekaterinberg and be over the border to Asia.
It also the first place where the snow lies uncleared on theもっと詳しく
Platform dog
2018年3月26日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
Balyezino is the first station with platform traders. It is also the first station with platform dogs. Neither belongs to the other, but where there is food being sold to tourists, there is usually aもっと詳しく
Boreal
2018年3月26日, ロシア ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
Morning on the train. Birch and pine forests for the first stretch, opening up to fields and villages at the first time zone change.
Wooden houses in various states of repair. Towns still use theもっと詳しく
All aboard
2018年3月25日, ロシア ⋅ 🌙 2 °C
First class travel means a free welcome pack of chocolate and teabags.
Wrapped up warm
2018年3月25日, ロシア ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
The thaw has begun, the river is flowing, albeit with the odd iceberg (and one very hardy duck), but there's still plenty of snow in Moscow. Some of which is blocking the drainpipes, so walking tooもっと詳しく
Moscow breakfast
2018年3月25日, ロシア ⋅ ☀️ 0 °C
Black bread, cream cheese, berry pie, orange pancakes and honeycomb. That should keep out the cold.






























































