Long train running

It is less than a year now until we get married, and while we are undecided on where to go for honeymoon - Tuscany or Greece - one thing is sure: a few months later we are going to take the train all the way to Hong Kong.

This is the plan:
Royal Victoria DLR to Canning Town; Jubilee Line to Waterloo; Eurostar to Brussels; train to Poland or Germany and then on to Moscow. From there we pick up the Trans-Siberian Express
Beijing via Ulaanbaatar. We will then make our way down China to Hong Kong, arriving in Central on the MTR. After a few days there, we will head to Japan, New Zealand, Oz and Peru.

I am exhausted just thinking about it!

Apparently it is best to get a Chinese Trans-Siberian train rather than a Russian one but either way, we are going first class, baby.

We plan to get off in Mongolia and catch the following train to China, which will be three days later.

I want to go riding with the famous horsemen, espcially after catching a glimpse of desert life watching The Story Of The Weeping Camel.

It follows a family of camel herders living in the featureless Mongolian scrubland.

It was quite a remarkable film as the people were not actors but it was a proper story rather than a fly-on-the-tent-wall documentary.

Plenty of close ups of camels giving birth - legs hanging out the back of a female camel giving birth and lots of goo.