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I will also be having some awards for the last 1/3 of my trip as well as some overall awards – these will follow the second St Petersburg post.

First I want to talk about some details I missed about the Trans Siberian. One thing that seemed to happen every night is that snow blew from the track inside the carriages which was very amusing as you don’t often get to see snow inside and it was a strange site to see.

The other thing I missed was that the carriages are heated by coal so that they are still heated even when the wheels are being changed as you go from China to Mongolia (as the Russians/Mongolians use slightly wider track, this was done so the Germans couldn’t invade along the railway line from Europe which is the same width as Chinese track. This also helps when the engine is being changed as happens fairly regularly along the line.