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Steven Craft

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All the X’s (Xi’an/Xining)

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24th September 2018

We shared our train cabin between Beijing and Xi’an with two young Chinese men, one of them had an interview in Xi’an and the other was accompanying him for…

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CHINA: OFF TO A BUMPY START

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19th September 2018

As we got off the train in Beijing we had come to the end of our Trans-Mongolian train adventure, travelling approximately 6,000 miles, spending seven nights on a train and…

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IS THERE MAC MAKEUP IN MONGOLIA

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26th August 2018

So finally we were about to embark on the part of our adventure which will answer the long pondered question: can Gemma buy Mac makeup in Outer Mongolia. We…

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IRKUTSK, LAKE BAIKAL & OLKHON ISLAND

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4th July 2018

We thought Yekaterinburg was unique in having a line painted on the floor around the city, guiding tourists around the main attractions, yet when we arrived in Irkutsk we…

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THE MIDDLE OF RUSSIA

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24th June 2018

Back when we decided to take the Trans-Mongolian train from St Petersburg in Russia to Beijing in China, we didn’t know exactly which stops we wanted to make on…