Siberia

Arriving in Yekateriburg at 'Uncle Monty's' (Withnail and I), our gay home stay host. 'Very good!!!'

Siberian views!
Chris' station- Tatarskaya! Chris has been asked if he is a Tatar on several occasions:-)
Siberian views!
Siberian views!

Train life!

Chris did well to find the prettiest provodnitsa on the train, delivering beers personally!!!
Soup didn't impress!
Welcome break! 20 mins stop-off.
More vodka...
1st class compartment!

Chris' Birthday!

Birthday dinner at Geo Cafe
Strolling along the bank of Moskva River, Gorky Park
Clubbing with French chicks!

Chris' Birthday!

Gorky Park
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Clubbing in Moscow!
Birthday drinks at Crisis Bar.
Chris almost getting us thrown out of Gorky park!

Week 1 Moscow Red Square

Week 1 Belarus and Moskva

Drinking buddies at the Trans-Siberian Hostel
'Muscovites' Zarina and Luigi kindly took us out for dinner on our first night in Moscow. Great hosts! Relatives of colleagues from London!
Arriving at Moscow base- Trans- Siberian hostel.
Brest-Moscow overnight train. Chris contemplating murdering fat russian lady keeping him up all night, coughing and spluttering!
Waiting for Brest-Moscow train

Week 1 Belarus and Moskva

Preparing to order tickets in Russian at Brest train station.
Finally crossing the border from Poland to Belarus, leaving Terespol behind!!! Not a minute too soon! Simon Pegg should have filmed 'Shaun of the Dead' here!
Terespol's finest!
Money can't buy class nor this bed!
RIP Jermaine Beckford's car aka Zebra 3! LEGEND!!!

Polski!

Following that Christmas jumper!

Polski!

Jermaine's car is being left behind in Terespol, Poland!
Christmas jumper sale on in Terespol!
A well-deserved beer after 10 hours driving- finally in Warsaw!

Polish border!

Departing London arriving Belgium and Germany

Brekfast at Dransfeld B&B
Dransfeld!

Made it to Eurotunnel without a minute to spare!
On our way to pick up Honda at 4am!

Moving in to Waterloo!

Oh yes and we went to Portobello Road to buy bags- Chris found a fab Manbag which has not left his side since England!

Then- the final move! To a tall white building called the White House in Waterloo where they have a concierge and swimming pool, but don't say hello or hold open doors for each other- which is a bit awkward for people who are trying to move in! Anyways, David opened his doors for us and we had a week there before departing on the 5th August for the Eurotunnel!

Well what d'ya know!! She's got her own uncle for a whole year who's even built her a dog kennel ('hundehus' for dere nordmenn som folger med her) for the garden. Isn't he handy??She's already snuggled up in uncle Paul's lap, thinking this is going to be a year full of cocktail sausages and trips to Peckham Rye Park!!!

Leaving Greenwich for Waterloo!

Had to move out of Greenwich a week before departure so though we'd follow David again, this time to Waterloo! But what about Milla?

7 o'clock in the morning in a Polish bed. Hmmm..feel like I should attempt to update this blog with some pre-travel photos before delighting you all with photos of Germany and Poland!