Me: “Where do you want to go away this year? How about a Northern BC road trip? Thom: “I really want to go to Eastern Russia” Me: … And that’s how we ended up deciding to spend 2 and a half weeks travelling along the Trans Mongolian Railway. In truth, when Thom suggested Eastern Russia…
Budgeting for a trip can be hard, especially when it’s a trip through three different countries! I didn’t really know how much to budget for our Trans Mongolian Railway trip where we spent two weeks across China, Mongolia and Russia. Quite a lot of the costs came before we actually left; train tickets, hotel bookings,…
I’ve always thought we’d travel on the Trans Siberian Railway I just didn’t realise it would be so soon. Back in the summer of 2019, my husband said he wanted to go to Eastern Russia or Mongolia. So, I went to the library to look up guide books and came across the Trans Siberian Railway…
As part of my trip on the Trans Mongolia Railway, I visited Russia for the first time. Eastern Russia (where we were) wasn’t somewhere I’d ever really considered travelling to, but since it was part of the railway line we were on then we figured “why not?”. This was back in 2019 before everything kicked…
Another of the stops on my trip on the Trans Mongolia Railway, where I travelled from Beijing to Russia, through Mongolia, was Irkutsk. This city in Russia was beautiful and I and my husband had a fun few times exploring the city. Irkutsk is one of the major stops on the Trans Siberian route and…