Well........ now im in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia. I also spent 3 days at Lake Baikal the deepest lake in the world on the Olkhon island. That area is really beautiful but i have no pictures :(
I spent so far 3 days on the train from Moskow with a brief stop at Yekaterinburg. Tomorrow I begin the 3 day train journey to Beijing!!!!!

View from the train, there are also many many trees :)

Baikal train from Yekaterinburg to Irkutsk

Playing some cards that made no sense to me

Famous church where the Romanovs Tsar (in the statue) was killed ending the monarchy in Russia

More pictures from Russian Championships

Some very good pictures of the event taken by somebody else!!!!! :)

Estonia, Saint Petersburg, Tivdia and Moscow!!!

Now im in Moscow after a few days on the road. First I flew to Helsinki and after a few hours there I travelled by ferry with a very friendly Estonian ballerina to Tallinn Estonia. The people at the hostle were great fun, running the streets of the old town dressed as cat, mouse and dog and constantly harrassing poor Brad. Then to Saint Petersburg for 3 days. Then I got a lift north to Karelia, 7 hours away from St Petersburg for the Russian freestyle kayak championships. The wave was located in a small village called Tivdia and it was great to meet so many great people. The event finished with a great party in the woods beside a lake which went on until the next day. It was so north that it never got dark !!!! Then we drove to another kayaking spot, then back to St Petersburg. In St petersburg I experienced the russian tradition of Banya which means baths. It was basically a really hot sauna, and part of it involves a kind of thrashing with leaves and branches. It was a great for my body after several days of drinking and partying with russians!!! I felt so good afterwards :) Moscow is a great city, so busy, the biggest city ive ever been in. It felt so strange to walk around Red square and the Kremlin!!!! On Saturday Im taking the train to Yekaterinburg, then to Irkutsk and on the 3rd of July will arrive in....BEIJING!!!!

Home

EASKEY!!!! I had to go home for a few days to drop back my bike :)