Lost in webSpace: Last day of this leg

So here we are. Married 25 years and starting our celebrations on the world's longest railway. Who'da thunk it?

Round the time I posted yesterday, we were running parallel to the China border. Inhabited areas vere very rare. It was all grasslands and woodlands. Since late afternoon, yesterday, we've started to see more and more towns. And some are quite big. We're starting to see factories. And we seen to cross large freight trains, 100 wagons at a time, at least once every 10 minutes.

Every time I try to show the OH something out of the window, a freight train goes by and blocks the view. And by the time it passes we're away from there too. I don't know if I have seen volume of freight movement while travelling by train in India.

We travelled along the Shilka River for a while. There were small ice floes and blocks of snow floating in the river for long stretches.

For the next stretch, after the Shilka station the tracks and the River Ingoda kept each other company.

Later in the evening we hit Karymskaya.

Karymskaya is the point where the a part of the trans Siberian line branches off into the Tranc Manchurian line, going all the way to Beijing.

We got off the train. Our idea was to walk up and down the platform to stretch our legs a bit.

We were all bundled up, hat, jacket, muffler.. the works... despite all that it was still rather chill. And then we saw these bros.

Shorts, T-shirts and slippers.

That made me shiver all the more and I just went back into the toasty train.

Early this morning the train stopped at Ulan Ude. Our Provodnitsa asked if I wanted to get down. The OH was asleep and I thought it was a sunny day and I would stretchy my legs.

I saw the temperature reading at 1°C and said Nyet.