Hot pot meal-cook your own food in the hot water. Me and King Prawn.
Leather and Young's eat your heart out! Contracting abroad. Guess which one's Dave?
Forbidden city-Palace of Heavenly Purity.
For Chris-thinking of you, look at the shape of this bell!
Forbidden city arty shot!
Horse riding with the crazy Mongolian plus Czech friend.
Ulaan Bataar-temple hiding 26 metre Buddha.
Mongolian landscape, outskirts of Ulaan Bataar.
1st class deluxe-Leather's thinking chair.
Outside Forbidden city with encircling moat.
Square in Ulaan Bataar-Chengis Khan statue.
Our Ger for the night after heavy snow fall.
Camels in the snow-Mongolia. 10 hours from anywhere!
What a lovely loo! Complete with missing door.
Private concert by the throat singing Mongolian legend.
Lake Baikal-Russian family who shared our accomodation, who were quite open about asking how much money you earn and how much things cost in England.
Dog sleighing for Rachel's birthday with the Russian champion leading the other dogs.
Retro park-Junk yard challenge.Mad siberian artist making models out of scrap-thought of Dave.
Frozen river in Siberia next to our log cabin.
Craig walking on Lake Baikal-at least one metre deep in ice.
Lake Baikal-ice broken off lake.
Trans Siberian diesels for Ken.
On the platform.
Log cabin in Siberia complete with bear skin.
Frozen pier at Lake Baikal.
Typical view for about 1000 miles-Siberia.
Free hot water from the Samovar (hot water tank)-tea source on the train.Arrive by train (didn't mess ablut this time-deluxe 1st class with armchair and shower room!)yesterday morning through the mountain passes and tunnels of rivers, dams and lakes. Also travelled through the Gobi desert in Mongolia which stretched for miles. Stepped off the train in Beijing in our winter wollies to find it scorching- well....about 18 degrees, which for us was scorching after being in the minus'for 5 weeks!
Beijing we have found to be very very nice. With a high profile army and police patrols of up to about a 40 marching regiment through the subway that you have to jump out of the way of! Only a little smoggy and everything in English ready for the Olympics so it isn't easy to get lost.
Everyone does their exercises here- keep bumping into little recreational grounds for adults were they are using outdoor gym equipment, table tennis (just up Pashley's street!) and playing games (chess etc). Even bumped into a ballroom dance in the street last night, Craig was in his element! Couldn't resist a spin or two.
Visited the forbideen city today which was massive and involved a lot of walking. Was very good and also went to Tianamenn square where the on guard soldiers order and shout people into orderly queues with handheld tanoys. Don't mess with these guys! Unless you went directions and they are very helpful. Also noticed we are beginning to get stared at a bit-people keep saying "'hello, how are you?'' to us in the middle of the street or keep pointing at us. Even when Craig was a bit smelly and bedraggled after 2 days on the train.
Just been for a meal where you had to cook your own meal by placing noodles, chicken and spinach in a boiling pot at your table! Been practising with the chop sticks and amazingly we are doing very well!
Beijing we have found to be very very nice. With a high profile army and police patrols of up to about a 40 marching regiment through the subway that you have to jump out of the way of! Only a little smoggy and everything in English ready for the Olympics so it isn't easy to get lost.
Everyone does their exercises here- keep bumping into little recreational grounds for adults were they are using outdoor gym equipment, table tennis (just up Pashley's street!) and playing games (chess etc). Even bumped into a ballroom dance in the street last night, Craig was in his element! Couldn't resist a spin or two.
Visited the forbideen city today which was massive and involved a lot of walking. Was very good and also went to Tianamenn square where the on guard soldiers order and shout people into orderly queues with handheld tanoys. Don't mess with these guys! Unless you went directions and they are very helpful. Also noticed we are beginning to get stared at a bit-people keep saying "'hello, how are you?'' to us in the middle of the street or keep pointing at us. Even when Craig was a bit smelly and bedraggled after 2 days on the train.
Just been for a meal where you had to cook your own meal by placing noodles, chicken and spinach in a boiling pot at your table! Been practising with the chop sticks and amazingly we are doing very well!
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