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Great pics as always Del
However, am getting worried about you as the number of food/vino pics seem to have reduced - hope you haven't reduced fuel intake Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
Limo Tint
Blackvue front & rear dashcam
Cruise control switch pack
Bodsy's remote for FBH
11th Oct 2019 12:58 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Getting closer to the end destination, seeing signs.
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Unfortunately we gained 4 hours of delays last night, we should be in Irkutsk. We’re not allowed out in the -9c as they hope to move off. And we got all dressed up for the occasion.
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Nothing much to report on way from wherever we were last to Irkutsk. We were met be a platform full of peeps waiting to get on our train!! Restaurant car is going to be busy.
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And that cute puppy. With piece of sausage roll from the Canadian chap in our carriage. He really is a sweetie (dog, not Canadian) and tail constantly wagging. Unfortunately couldn’t take him with us.
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Lake Baikal next.
12th Oct 2019 4:30 am
Pelyma
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Great pics Del, still raining here!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
12th Oct 2019 6:21 am
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View of LB, more to follow.
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And talking of precipitation, it’s has a light dusting here, expecting more as we head away from LB to Ulan Ude & Mongolia.
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12th Oct 2019 7:18 am
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Off from Ulan Ude to the Mongolian border, now only 3 hours late. I’ll loose 4g pretty quickly and have no data in Mongolia so will update peeps once in China. If my Chinese sim doesn’t play then it’ll be from the hotel in Beijing. 11pm we start the first load of border crossing schinanigans, it’s going to be a long night. Plus even more 28 hours after that for the Chinese side where they change the train bogies.
12th Oct 2019 12:16 pm
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Random LB pics
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And lots of snow around. This is meant to be a tropical gig.
12th Oct 2019 12:20 pm
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Those houses have amazing views of the lake.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
12th Oct 2019 12:25 pm
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Even better when it’s frozen, and they can drive to the other side. Lots of ice forming in rivers now, not too long until winter arrives.
12th Oct 2019 12:28 pm
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Greetings from China. Just left Mongolia, now have most of a 5 hour wait left in an overcrowded transit hall while they change the bogies on the train.
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Will post more pics of Mongolia from Beijing tomorrow or Wednesday, after a nice sleep in a soft bed and a most desperately needed shower or bath. And laundry, laundry might also be a priority as recycling has its limits.
13th Oct 2019 3:01 pm
detritus22
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13th Oct 2019 7:34 pm
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Safely tucked up in the Beijing hotel, shower and much needed shave done. And GFWoC outfoxed. For now.
Pic of somewhere in Beijing from the train.
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Will do proper update after some:
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14th Oct 2019 10:36 am
Grianaig
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Intrigued how they changed the bogies on the train. Not terribly mechanically minded but it seems a big job. Lift the coaches off and onto other ones or jack them up and replace each one at a time?2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
14th Oct 2019 11:55 am
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We didn’t see that. It took 3 1/4 hours to change them, all the time we were sat in an inspection waiting area. We had hoped we’d do immigration/customs and then get our heads down as all this started at 9pm local time so getting to bed at, say, 10:30 after immigration would have been bliss. And a non moving bed at that. We got to bed at 3am local and up 4 hours later for pretty rubbish free breakfast but SWMBO saw the word “free”.
Sooooooo nice to have a proper soft bed that I don’t have to climb up to. And nice and quiet, not like being in a car crash.
PS SWMBO now tells me we got to bed at zero dark 30. It just felt like 3am. Sleep deprivation and all that.
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14th Oct 2019 12:15 pm
Grianaig
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Might do the You Tube thing and see if I can improve my engineering knowledge. 2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
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