Trains...

The train trip was fun but often hard work - the longest segment being 53 hours! Company, including the carriage staff, was great. The toilets were often small, smelly squat types that were locked for half an hour leading into a city/town and remained so until the same distance out! At the Mongolian/Russian border they were locked for eight hours...

The staff were very diligent with their responsibilities - vaccuuming, cleaning, stoking the water heater among their many jobs. Perhaps their most important task was making sure we got back on board at our brief and infrequent stops along the way!