So good to be back!

strawberries this time...


maybe grubs or cicadas next time...


five businessmen and us


met up with Jack...


and chairman Mao!


Quick-stepped it to THE duck restaurant...


then to the remains of the "versailles of the east"


Harry forgot his hat.

Getting our Bogies picked

Between mongolia and China

More Mongolia

fullet + mullet = the camel = rad


briony with puppy and yaks - (quite tasty - the yaks, not the puppy)


the little dots are yaks

For Liz

Early Caravan.

You can put a ger anywhere.

Ulaan Bataar

Tounge Slide

Crickey!

Touring Olkhon Island -Baikal

In and old soviet Jeep? No, they still make them like this! This one is new!

Call me Dr.Zhevago

Cool-fun!

Visiting Baikal

We arrive in Irkutsk

It's dawn, and the sun is just rising over the station. So pretty.

"Authentically" Russian

Harry soaks up a window-chilled "molotov cocktail" with his fur hat on, in the shower.

Train days

Briony entertains 16, eleven year old ice-hockey champs with pictionay style conversations about Australia.


This russian girl thinks Harry is handsome

30 hours on the train and, the landscape is still entertaining.

Thats right

Frosty the midget snowman

Its officially cold

Siberian fields

Looks kind of like Australia in summer except it's -5 outside.

New Friends

Yes, that sprite bottle is full of vodka.
Yes, it is 8:30 in the morning.
Kazan to Yekaterinburg

Fish in a suitcase

Feeling small in Kazan

Kremlin

For Dad