Sophia and Hanna posing with our beloved train. Beijing here we come!
Sophia and Ruut in our compartment, doing what we did most: looking out the window, reading, listening to music and eating, all at once. (well fine, they're drinking not eating here.)
We tried to exercise at every station, since we basically didn't use any energy while on the train... if walking to the toilet or another wagon to visit the swedes/finn/dutchmen doesn't count. Here's Sophia running up and down stairs at a train station in Russia. This was a small station... so you can probably imagine the big ones.
Buying more water at ever station. We became quite fluent:
Priviet!
Voda spassiba!
Nie gas. Litr, litr! (pointing at big bottle) da,da!
(they show price on calculator) Aha! da? (give them the wrong amount of money, they correct you) aa, da!
Spacciba, dasvidanja!
A typical meal, beans and mashed poatoes. Other days it was noodles, soup or soy pasta. We had a samovar, so we got warm water, and even had access to a microwave.
Sophia and Ruut posing in Ulan Ude. The fresch air, the superb view!
Ruut in the Chinese restaurant vagon with Tom (the brit), Yaro and Djeff (dutch).
Our comparment usually looked a bit crowded in the evenings (uh, nights) which didn't make our provodnik too happy.
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