With less than two weeks to go, all travel, visas and accommodation are booked (in no small part thanks to Andrew who has trawled the necessary websites and gained large amounts of cashback on his credit card!). The dates of the trip were planned around known work commitments many months ago. Inevitably a project timescale has slipped, and the serious question was asked a few days ago by our employer as to whether we could postpone the trip (with suitable compensation). Well, no, this time they'll have to find a way to work around it!
So, here is the plan:
Saturday 15/02 Fly to Moscow
Sunday 16/02 Train to Nizhni Novgorod
Monday 17/02 Overnight train to Yekaterinburg
Wednesday 19/02 Overnight train to Omsk
Friday 21/02 Train to Novosibirsk
Sunday 23/02 Overnight train to Irkutsk
Wednesday 26/02 Train to Ulan Ude
Thursday 27/02 Double overnight train to Khabarovsk
Monday 03/03 Final train to Vladivostok
Wednesday 05/03 Fly to Seoul
Saturday 08/03 Fly to Heathrow
Many stopovers allow contingency and sightseeing. Future blog posts will tell more. Main concern now is deciding on suitable clothing to pack for temperatures in the -30 degrees celsius range...
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