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Morning!! Couldn’t sleep last night so I woke up incredibly late - to this... Now we’re in Siberia proper... birch forests, snowy villages and white valleyspic.twitter.com/pYUyh3Acqz

You can see the back of the train as we curved around this villagepic.twitter.com/mUTqEQZNc7

We just had our first station stop - I saw the first pet dog I’ve seen in Russia! Is it too cold to have them? Or have they all been inside?pic.twitter.com/uRIipHH1T8

Now we’re passing this bridge and it’s so freezing steam is coming off the river beneath!pic.twitter.com/4EvaJApscn

Drinking hot tea and watching Siberia unfold. It’s SO beautifulpic.twitter.com/O6XnGrDVEL

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I love it when you can watch the train curve around The Valley!pic.twitter.com/QJMdNPyrIh

Lunch! Hot soup, frozen landscape.pic.twitter.com/gt62nAnBDh

The food’s really good - the view is even betterpic.twitter.com/mczf8VyVj8

And so it goes on, endless and more magical (or maybe that’s the wine)pic.twitter.com/gh2J8k13g1

And sometimes you see a road or a person and you can’t really believe it. How did they get there?!pic.twitter.com/OmWYfxSr4D

Now it’s dark. We just had another stop. There was a little shop this time. We got supplies including this beer which people told us to get. It’s 8%, so presumably that’s whypic.twitter.com/D6xEbozyzN

Also @RobbieRinder went out in his shorts to prove he’s as hard as the Russian men! I still wore my usual three layers of clothes!pic.twitter.com/1oED95XvXJ

Ok so Rob’s on the Báltica 9 and I’m on the Kremlin Vodka. We have our next stop in an hour, we think although it’s difficult to work out because the time zone’s keep changing ...pic.twitter.com/arVzDI58br

Ah ok so we crossed another timezone which means we’re coming into Taishet. Better start spending the next half hour wrapping up.pic.twitter.com/0o7AfSZDTQ

We only got 2 minutes! So here it is out the (snowy) windowpic.twitter.com/YccjxkTd7Y

Ok we’ve gone for dinner - It’s our last night on the train before we stop in Irkutsk tomorrow.pic.twitter.com/F2A4mekOU8

We’ve got chicken salad, a smoked salmon roll and Cotes du Rhône. And Smetina (sour cream) because Rob is addicted to itpic.twitter.com/jmB8r1hi9M

And borschpic.twitter.com/eFgj1ZOUXc

Here’s the rest of the restaurant, it closes in a bit (it’s 11pm here)pic.twitter.com/TMEoKrbKe0

It’s -32oc outside!! I love they always have the temperature up. It’s like they’re proud of surviving such cold!pic.twitter.com/5N6tXQCAmo

And here’s the lovely team who work in the restaurantpic.twitter.com/EX9y7z57K9

So now we have a ton of little stops and in the morning at like 7am we get off at Irkutsk (we haven’t worked out if it’s the 7.24 or 7.40 one yet but I feel this may be important)pic.twitter.com/9D9haPRPaN

Now I try and sleep (and read Anna Karenina) while @RobbieRinder drives me crazy doing his prison workoutpic.twitter.com/0tfrx962yP

By the way here’s (some of) the restaurant menu (someone asked for it) and now I’m going to try and sleep so we can be up for 7am xpic.twitter.com/rn8f7oYtPK

Our Provodnitsa Elena (she runs the carriage) just gave us apples for bedtime as a present! We love her xpic.twitter.com/7MUneDRxOr

Igor woke us up on time for our stop at Irkutsk. There’s frost on the window and it’s dark outside ... excited to explore - here we come!pic.twitter.com/LmooYhqKbI

So here’s the media! Turning up to interview us in Irkutsk !pic.twitter.com/xti2gF2pMJ

It’s beautiful here!! The trees are like ice skeletons, the streets are thick with snow and the cars are caked in ice.pic.twitter.com/P6KtPFvhyN