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		<title>Day 112-115: Pacific</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I stepped off the train in Vladivistok on a bright Saturday morning, I&#8217;d dearly like to tell you that my first thought was not one of immense relief. That was, however, the overriding feeling as I escaped the confines of the train and made my way through the station, stopping to snap an &#160;old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 108-111: End of the Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ambling back to the port, I waited patiently for the minibus, to be gradually joined by an increasingly large group of Russians. As there was no semblance of a queue and a detectable anxiety amongst the group regarding whether there would be enough seats available, I sharpened my elbows and put my running shoes on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 106-107: On Frozen Pond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another twenty hour journey on the Trans-Siberian passed without particular interest or incident. The novelty of taking long train journeys every other day or so was wearing off a little, and despite trying the whole range of brands and flavours of instant noodles on offer in Russian supermarkets, they were also growing a little tiresome. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 104-105: The Recovery Position</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was escorted from my light &#8220;interrogation&#8221; in the basement by a member of the railway police upstairs to a public waiting room and put under the watchful eye of a typical middle-aged female Russian train official nearby. When the time came for my train, she called another railway policeman to personally accompany me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 103: Mafiasco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up until now I had been living it up on my train journeys in the kupeny (compartment) class of accommodation, so I thought for one journey I&#8217;d experience the cheaper platskart class in which the beds were open plan, with six of them squeezed into the space that four shared in kupe. Boarding the train, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 101-102: The Russian Frontier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my overnight journey from Yekaterinburg I had been dealt the fortuitous gift of a four-person cabin all to myself, so I made the most of it, spreading my stuff about and dining like a budget-conscious king on the spoils from my Yekaterinburg supermarket trip. I slept OK, waking briefly to see a hazy sunrise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 100: Tsar Trek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back at the train station with time to spare, and buoyed with confidence after a few days successfully navigating Russia without coming to a sticky end, I decided to run the gauntlet with the imposing line of ticket windows to purchase another onward leg of my journey. The windows were apparently very specific depending on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 99: Ivan the Terrific</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was starting to get into the swing of the trains. Last night I had been on a shopping spree, buying up an unhealthy selection of Доширак instant noodles, fruit, biscuits, and, er, vodka to keep me going on the long overnight journey. Settling into my bunk minutes before take-off, I thought I might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 98: Gorky 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A seven hour train journey stretching into the evening was exactly what I needed to recover from the shock of the supposed mugging attempt I&#8217;d experienced earlier in Moscow. I stretched out, relaxed and tried to move my mind on from the incident, looking forward to being out of the behemoth and arriving at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 95-97: Mugscow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening I had deciphered my ticket correctly and tracked down my very first Trans-Siberian train with a good amount of time to spare. Walking the platform along the immense length of the train I located my carriage and came face-to-face with my first Provodnitsa, a (typically middle-aged and female) member of train staff whose [...]]]></description>
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