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July 11, 2013
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11 June. It’s about 22:30 and I’m looking out the window of my room in our B & B in Listvyanka a small town on the edge of Lake Baikal. Listvyanka is about 70 kilometers east of Irkutsk. It sits …
July 10, 2013
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10 June. The train we boarded in UB was similar but not identical to the train from Beijing. It was, perhaps, a tad newer and it carried an air of shabby elegance. It’s possible that I boarded with altered expectations …
July 9, 2013
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9 June. To recap the end of the previous post, I woke up early this morning – about 06:30 – and by about 07:00 I went up to the main house hoping for some tea to take the chill off. …