Then occasionally a town appearspic.twitter.com/GkKWY9VAZR
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People are asking and it’s the most amazing thing we have ever done! Please can British Rail hire Igor and Elena - they are wonderful.pic.twitter.com/hnvQNf9tWV
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And yes - we have WiFi. The train is really modern, clean and wel equipt. We’re watching War and Peace on an IPad! When we’re not watching the viewpic.twitter.com/TxJqSPzLeK
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Omsk looked fascinating! But we only had half an hour, and were worried about missing the train so we just ran about and grabbed our Xmas day lunchpic.twitter.com/flbiykm5oH
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Now we’re back on the train! It’s so warm! So we’re all tucked up and cozy with Igor and Elena looking after us. So far so beautiful... but it’s starting to get dark alreadypic.twitter.com/XOosuumaAG
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So - for Christmas Day breakfast we went to the restaurant had hot pancakes with Caviar, Asti and cold herring. And here’s
@RobbieRinder with his present from mepic.twitter.com/KPyXN3edPV
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Ok IMPORTANT - loads of people are asking me about prices etc. We organised our trip through these guys - https://twitter.com/headseast they sorted everything: the hotel’s in Moscow, the yurt we’ll be staying in in Mongolia (!) our place for NYE in Beijing . Can’t recommend them enough
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We seem to have a series of short one minute stops now. Not a whole lot to see - and no real time to get off. We keep passing time zones so hours are flying by. It’s almost 8pm here nowpic.twitter.com/zUgyXCALsD
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Igor has come to clean our carriage - he said he loves our matching Christmas onsiespic.twitter.com/qVNa8ROP5t
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Ok I’m SO sorry Russia but for Xmas day lunch we had... KFCpic.twitter.com/bKfalIXeub
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We’ve arrived in Barabinsk in siberia. There are little glowing booths on the platform and women selling dried fish from bags. The snow is knee high at the side of the platformpic.twitter.com/4sNUbNTaeP
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I bought these weird little pancake things. They were frozen solid but they’ve thawed now. They taste of fish - maybe someone can tell me what’s in them - they’re quite nice!pic.twitter.com/hGcuUuN5d7
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We don’t have another stop for hours now so we’ve been exploring the train. There are some people hanging out in corridors in shorts and slipperspic.twitter.com/BbdmcrWRYc
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