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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

And first stop ... our guide had taken us to a London pub! Which is in the oldest hotel in Irkutskpic.twitter.com/cuh8iD4dUQ

Right yeah. That got a bit lost because I’m so terrible at threads but we arrived at Irkutsk station to find media wanting to interview us!!pic.twitter.com/okiNyuzdZ1

We’re in the car now heading to Lake Baikal ...there’s steam coming off the cars and I got a spontaneous nosebleed outside, which is apparently pretty normal in this coldpic.twitter.com/ZVa8E6NSBK

While we’re driving I’m going to add some pictures I took on the train we lost on our thread. These were women selling fish at the stationpic.twitter.com/sV1hDER3UY

And facemasks on the train on Christmas Day!pic.twitter.com/mVvLkldgSs

This was walking between the carriagespic.twitter.com/uwzXWETcL2

Caviar and vodka on Christmas Day with @RobbieRinderpic.twitter.com/yfNSYFmXTR

Somewhere in Siberia !pic.twitter.com/H5gu8EZbTv

The outside of our trainpic.twitter.com/x7fl3DcXbz

And here’s where we got our endless hot water for teapic.twitter.com/pvD47flfW6

So we arrived in Irkutsk and it’s bitter but there’s no wind. We climbed Rock Chersky. It was so cold the ski lift couldn’t run. There was not another tourist in sight ! After watching this land on the train it’s so amazing to be in itpic.twitter.com/Bl4ZgNtBHv

It’s so icy steam is rising from the lake and the trees look like they’re carved from icepic.twitter.com/hSbSsXzrcG