The next leg was Trans-Continental. We were heading for Siberia and Asia. 5 days on a train, silver birch trees as far as the eye can see for days on end. We'd go to sleep and wake up and the landscape hadn't changed a bit. There was a stinky Russian guy on the train who's aroma smelled of a glorious bonfire containing nothing but dogfood and rubber tyres burning. The entire carriage was stunk out!
We would sleep, eat 2 minute noodles, read, sleep, get fed unlimited twix chocolates from the Irish ladies, sleep and play uno. We also spent some time learning Russian from some kids in return for some balloon animals.
We finally got off in Irkutsk desperately needing a shower and headed up to the shores of Lake Baikal where we spent 2 nights in Listvyanka. Lake Baikal is beautiful, some places you can see the bottom where it is 40m deep. It is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world due to it being so deep. It is gradually getting larger due to the tectonic plates moving apart and one day will separate Asia and Europe.
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