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Lake Baikal - the deepest lake in the world

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Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world - how exotic does that sound? On our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway we stopped in Irkutsk in Siberia, and from here it is not far to Listvyanka and the deepest lake in the world. Of course, we had to go there!

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Irkutsk, Russia - The Paris of Siberia

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Today we will take you to Irkutsk in Siberia, which we visited in the summer of 2006. We continue today to tell you about our journey on the Trans-Mongolian railway that started in Moscow and continued all the way to Beijing. But we are going to tell you about the first stop, the one that happened after about four days on the train.

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Experiences in Moscow - in the heart of Russia

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Today we offer some experiences in Moscow, from our trip in 2006. We started with a flight from Stockholm to Moscow, and then we continued with the Trans-Siberian railway through Russia, to Mongolia and China. It will be a series of these I think... But as I said, we start in Moscow!

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What is happening in Crimea?

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What is happening in Crimea? Do you find it hard to keep up? Political crises are often complex and it is not always easy to grasp the context. I found an American site that explains quite clearly how certain things are related to the unrest in Crimea. Here is an abridged version. The pictures are from our holiday in Yalta, Crimea in the summer of 2010.

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Travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway

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In 2006, we travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing, via Mongolia. What a journey! We didn't have a blog at the time, but we have many memories. Every now and then we get questions about the trip, so we thought we'd tell you a bit more about it. After all, it's one of our coolest trips ever!

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Motorhome through Russia - is it possible?

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Can you travel through Russia by motorhome? We've been wanting to take our motorhome east to Russia for a long time. So we were very enthusiastic when we saw that the latest issue of Caravanbladet, the Caravan Club's member magazine, featured a report on a motorhome trip to Murmansk.

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