We're currently in Riga, Latvia and are preparing ourselves to delve further behind the former Iron Curtain and arrive in Moscow at the end of this week!
Riga is a bit of a party town and seems to be a real hot spot for British Stag Parties that according to the locals cause havoc here at weekends. They don't mention problems from Irish Stag or Hen parties so I'm hoping we don't cause the same kind of problems here. We've even seen warnings from the British Embassy warning people not to forget where their hotels are and not to urinate in public! Nice!
In all fairness whilst it is very pretty here it does feel a bit like a bigger shiner Temple Bar! Dublin people will understand! But saying that we've had a lovely time here and have prepared ourselves for the next step of our journey.
It's unlikely that I'll have an opportunity to blog for the next couple of weeks as we'll be in transit to Beijing on the Trans Siberian railway.
We're due to stop twice, once at Lake Baikal and the second time in Mongolia. I'm looking forward to the trip but am nervous about entering and exiting Russia and just hope that everything will go ok for us. Apparantly random visa problems can occur for no known reason. Hopefully that won't be us!
The train journey itself sounds like it will be good fun and I'm not really concerned about it at all. In fact I'm looking forward to having to sit down for a while!
So that's the update for the moment. I'll be back as the Terminator once said, but it may be about two weeks, but keep checking in just in case I make a surprise appearance with strange tales about Mongol traders!
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Hoping you are fine
Enjoy enjoy enjoy
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