Hello all!
Arrived in Shanghai by overnight train this morning. Unfortunately not in the luxury of a 2-berth compartment, this time! Spent the whole evening in the restaurant cart and met a lovely Dutch couple whom we spent the evening drinking beer, eating pistachios and chatting with, before returning to our compartment and its grumpy Chinese sleepers! One of the first Chinese grunpies we've met actually- the Chinese are overall very nice, helpful and polite people!!!!
Anyways, just wanted to let you know that being in China is not easy internet-wise! There are blocks on several websites and our blog does not seem to work properly, hence no pictures recently. We'll keep trying, but just so you're aware- there may not be any more photos before Vietnam.
We'll be travelling inlands on Saturday or so, towards Guilin and Yangshou (for those of you who are interested in the details) for some rural action; village-hopping, rice-paddies, camping, mountains and some real getting lost in the countryside. We've had it with big cities and capitals now!!!
That's it for now. We're off to some bar in the French Concession district of Shanghai called 'Face Bar'!
Hadet bra!
Sunset views of Krasnoyarsk from the train!
World's biggest train set! Chris couldn't even climb aboard.
Standard train snack with the obligatory Russian refreshment- spot the English addition!
Leaving Krasnoyarsk, headed for Irkutsk and the world's largest lake- Baikal!
Couldn't leave Krasnoyarsk without a party with the locals! Funny how there are never any good-looking fellas about eh!
Still got it! Greeted by one of the waitresses at a 1940's bar in Krasnoyarsk.
Enjoying a glass of Chablis, surrounded by war time memorabilia!
Krasnoyarsk view, with Siberian mountains looming in the background.
The ever-present Lenin statue!
Jack Nicholson eat your heart out! 11 quid a night, no toilet or hot water- the Russians know how to welcome you. Redrum Redrum! Hotel Sever. You could just add an E at the end for a better name?
Sausage n mash Trans Siberian style with local mustard of course!
Our carriage from Yekaterinburg to Krasnoyarsk!
Lady and the tramp. No comments please!
Samovar? A bloody big kettle to us!
Me with yet another providnitsa. Check out my train socks!
At the Romanov burial site where the last Tsars of the Russian Empire were murdered- before the Communists took over! There- abit of Russian history for you!!!
Headscarves and skirts required!
Wooden structure built around the site, to mark the graves.
Rowing on the boating lake in Yekaterinburg.
I see no ships!
