You cannot imagine how delicious an average pizza or pasta tastes after four weeks of boiled (mutton) meat, potatoes and cabbage - it was fabulous!
However, we had problems to face: a non-extendable Mongolian visa about to expire and unaffordable last minute flights out of Mongolia. It left us the option to leave the country on the land route eighter towards the south or north. As China has refused to let us cross its borders before, we did not feel like going there that's why our only option left was Russia.
The Russian embassy however made it very clear to us that first, visas are not cheap and second, there is no way you can get a real tourist visa in less than two weeks in Mongolia. We finally ended up with a transit visa for 116 dollars (for a Swiss) with which we were allowed to take the train to Moscow, but only spend two nights outside of the train. This is how and why we ended up in a train for exactly 100 hours.
This journey took us through autumny Sibiria with perfect yellow-orange-red trees and deep blue skies. The view of all the untouched nature, change of the light as the days passed and the
persistent tsch-tsch, tsch- tsch noise of the train built up a very relaxing athmosphere which we enjoyed a lot. We would have stayed in the train for another 100 hours with no problems at all.
We were never bored - a fact which might have been supported by the really entertaining smuggeling of tons of Chinese clothes which was going on. The clothes were sold to the Russians on the train stations, even when the stops were only five minutes. We are not quite sure if Sales were up for underpants but we were always having a careful look that not ours would be auctioned during the powershopping stops.
Exept for us, 11 Welsh teenies, one Australian and one Frensh couple, everybody on the train was included in the smuggeling, even the train hostesses and the train driver - we still have not found out where all the stuff was stored during the border crossing but we guess that it was hidden somewhere in the cealing of the train.
The robust technology of the train did its job and we did arrive on-time in Moscow.
And again... imagine pizza or pasta after four days of quick soup. Besides that the russian capital is probably the best city in the world to spot for Maybach, Bugatti, other italian sport cars and huge Mercedes limousines and to visit designer shops.
We only had 36 hrs in Moscow but did the most and visited the Kreml and its churches, the red place and its churches, other churches, had a glimpse at Lenin's body, bought a Matruschka on the tourist market and enjoyed the view of Moscow's skyline and its olympic facilities.
Again we were amazed to observe a new way to pose on snapshots - the catwalk pose of the russian.
Leaving for Athens and looking forward for good, fresh food, some diving and kiting and to spend money in Europe's crisis country felt like a good plan before heading home to cut the beard :-)
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