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Will you be 6 days cold turkey from the Internet?
Btw, in China - do try Baijiu but watch out as it’s a quite hard spirit. Tastes much better when mixed with Fanta or similar.
8th Oct 2019 5:57 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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We’ve got tonnes of data for the next few days, plus a data sim packed & ready to go for China. The cold turkey bit will be Mongolia, unless Megafon roam there. Which I doubt but will check.
8th Oct 2019 6:00 pm
kajtzu
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I guess there is coverage along the railway track then?
8th Oct 2019 6:02 pm
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4g in any reasonable sized place, 3G in a lot of the rest then down to 2g most of the rest of the way. So the various blogs say.
8th Oct 2019 6:07 pm
stew 46
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Now we know who started this dyslexia thing
Great pics as usual mr & mrs del -------------------------------------------------
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h top transit
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8th Oct 2019 6:09 pm
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Cheers.
It’s great fun trying to read Russian, especially when the signs don’t flip to English every now and again. We’ve been playing vino pot luck with Russian vino and it’s been really good, esp as most of it has been under £3 a bottle. We’ve got at least one bottle of Moldovan vino in the bag so will see how that goes.
Getting there, only 3.5 hours to go.
8th Oct 2019 6:22 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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The train’s up on the board.
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8th Oct 2019 6:37 pm
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We’re on!!
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Home for the next 6 days, those beds are pretty solid!
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And the wine has been stowed.
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They need to get shovelling more coal on the fire, literally.
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A few pics from this morning.
Pretty frosty this morning, well parkie and not that much warmer in the carriage!
Windows pretty grubby so rubbish pics.
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Heating system on train, sadly not in our carriage. Our attendant is a bit mean with the coal!
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And pointy end of train on our first legs stretch at Kirov.
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We expected loads of peeps selling food but nothing. Mind you there can’t be more than thirty peeps on a train of 15 coaches.
Food ordered for lunch.
Oh and yes, those beds/bunks are as hard as they look.
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PS Lunch in the Russian Railways restaurant car. Pretty simple but did the job nicely, and reasonably good vfm compared with the rest of the menu. We’ll prob just do the set lunch there, maybe breakie, and bickies at all other times. Dinner might be from a green bottle.
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9th Oct 2019 11:00 am
Pelyma
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Cheers for the Glympse link That is one long journey DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
9th Oct 2019 11:44 am
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Tell me about it, deffo looking forward to a soft couch or bed. Looking on the bright side, no jet lag.
9th Oct 2019 12:01 pm
ianm27
Member Since: 02 Jun 2016
Location: Hertfordshire
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Just checked the link - says you are rocketing along at 42mph!!
Entrepreneur alert - ship out some blow up lilos to use on those hard beds??
And no.....that wasn't a reference to another blow up item previously mentioned...........or maybe that's a possibility Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
Limo Tint
Blackvue front & rear dashcam
Cruise control switch pack
Bodsy's remote for FBH
9th Oct 2019 12:44 pm
Pelyma
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Can't be Del thinks you suffocate above 30mph DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
9th Oct 2019 1:10 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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30’s plenty, not sure I could take the excitement of going too fast. That’s on top of the excitement of a time zone change.
SWMBO is officially in charge of getting us up tomorrow for breakie at the right time. Up until last year (or 2017) the whole Russian sector of the route ran on Moscow time. I can see why now.
9th Oct 2019 1:28 pm
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30’s plenty, not sure I could take the excitement of going any faster on top of the time zone change we’ve just done.
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