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taiga taiga taiga

2007-05-28T04:40:23Z

swamp, swamp and more swamp Originally uploaded by missyshera. if you are at all curious about what we have been looking at out the windows of our nine-day long train journeys, well.....here it is. water brush taiga swamp and for a chan...

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Civilization!

2007-05-28T04:32:25Z

Well of a sort. We are in Khaborovsk, a mere 15 miles from the Chinese border, in a bustling city that we both like the best in all Russia. Young, prosperous, and not quite so many hanging jaws when we walk by. Its a beautiful city, quite old fo...

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City of Youth

2007-05-26T06:53:32Z

This is officially the furthest East I have ever been - 7 hours ahead of and roughly 8350km due east of Moscow. Stalin had a brainwave in 1932. Send all the pesky 20 year olds in the Young Communist League who had too much education and with too ...

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where in the world are we??

2007-05-24T05:00:29Z

Ah, beautiful Tynda. Headquarters of the BAM - the northern trans-siberian line. The highlight of this place is definitely all about the train. The station is quite possible the most beautiful I have ever seen, some sort of Star Trek / Soviet hy...

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Rubles per MB?

2007-05-21T08:27:33Z

Internet access here is weird. You have pay for the computer time, and then you pay more for the number of megabytes you download. On the one hand, it's great because if you aren't online you don't have to pay up but jesus does it ever add up fas...

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Lake Baikal...

2007-05-21T08:18:34Z

We have washed up on the shores of Lake Baikal, on the Northern, less visited (hillbilly) end of the lake. Damn is it quiet, and is it ever isolated. The lake is surrounded by ice capped mountains, and the trees are only just now starting to bud...

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Sheila at the Spooky Kremlin

2007-05-19T08:01:36Z

kremlin and sheila Originally uploaded by missyshera. We left Moscow on Sunday, after staying up way too late watching the outrageous Eurovision. I was very outraged, as France should have won, and I thought England's entry was fab. At ...

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Ou Providenista, Our Saviour

2007-05-19T07:45:58Z

Ou Providenista Originally uploaded by missyshera. She does it all. And runs the car we are in with an iron fist. Shushing the drunk army dudes, checking that errant English tourists are still on the train when we leave a station, stoki...

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Trans-Siberian serving wenches

2007-05-19T07:34:45Z

Trans-Siberian serving wenches Originally uploaded by missyshera. Chris had some fans on the train. These are the two intensely bored, seriously giggly girls who were supposedly serving in the dining car. The dining car was run by a fussy, ir...

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matruschka galore

2007-05-18T09:07:28Z

matruschak Originally uploaded by missyshera. I really really cannot believe I didn't buy the KISS matruschka doll. It had Gene Simmons with all the other members inside leading to a naked groupie then a tiny bottle of JB. Sigh This market sell...

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