On this train, none of us actually realized what and where we were going.. Eventually when the Russian train officers came to ask for passports and to give out strange forms to fill, we gradually started to see what was happening..
So we were in this cabin for 4 people and there was this fellow named Dima, he was cool and he helped us fill the forms which were written in russian.. (That's ruff when you realize that you cannot read what is written)
After crossing the border, we didn't wait long before we got some sleep, after all we were going to be in Moscow early in the morning..
Tuesday 19 September.
So, early in the morning, here we are in a city of 20 million inhabitants, Moscow.
First of all, we had to change stations. So we went out across the road and inside this other station. There was no safe near us so Pete & Joni stayed with all the stuffs and I went out to search for these safes. The hole station circled around, I finally found the place where people store their stuff. I must say that as i've travelled in Finland, there have always been these metallic safe boxes in the stations, but this was in the far end of an empty hallway, only a room and a man standing in front of the door.. This was a little bit of an annoying idea to store our homes here, but then again the other choice we had was to carry it with us..
After very little consideration we stored our stuff and went to hunt the place where we can get our tickets to the Trans-Siberian railways.. We had a photo of the ticket selling office and a sort of map which was hard to understand, but thanks to Pete's hawk eye's we found the place immediatly. It was actually really near the station where we got off in the first place.
So we get there and start to negociate for our tickets and it seems all good, except that Joni has his passport in his backpack which is in the safestorage..
So we go out and we realize that our stuff is at the wrong station and we decide to move our homes to the right stations storage room, which also seemed lots more trustworthy than the first one.
Then we manage to get our tickets towards Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator.
After all that early morning fuss, we decided to relax and grab a beer ...
And really I must say that even though I don't like beer that much, this was a really awesome tasting one!
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