Archive for March 18th, 2009
The trans siberian in Mongolia and Russia
After a good nights sleep we awake to be crossing the Gobi Desert, this is a pretty large desert in the south of Mongolia, we saw quite a bit of wildlife including sheep and deer as well as some traditional Mongolain yurts – it was mostly just scrubland. However there did appear to mostly be [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: Asia, Europe, Mongolia, Russia, trains, Trans Siberian
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UK Democracy still functions
I sent my MP an email on Monday over the chief medical officers plans to introduce minimum prices of £0.50 per unit of alcohol (US$0.70, €0.53) which has been rejected by Gordon Brown (UK Prime Minister) and was pleasantly surprised to receive an acknowledgement in the post this morning. I’m impressed that he’s managed to [...]
Posted: March 18th, 2009 under Real Life.
Tags: China, democracy, Europe, politics, United Kingdom
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