The Trans-Siberian

We find ourselves on a train for 4 days (90 hours) covering 5000+ km through 5 time zones and wondering what will fill our time. Well there is staring out the window, reading, listening to music, eating (mostly instant noodles), talking, more staring out the window, and of course everybody’s favourite Drinking. There are also the occasional stops where you can streach your legs for 20 min and take photos such as ‘Novosibirsk ‘ the divide between Europe and asia. The Vodka culture is alive and well, though as it turns out there is rather a big diference between the vodaka that cost $3 a litre and the real McCoy. A decent bottle will put hair on your chest, The bad stuff will toughen your guts and put hair on your bum, while with the good stuff you’re guaranteed to get your vision back after 3 days, no problems. We all developed a taste for good vodka. When drinking with the locals it is customary to have 100gramms of vodka, to show that we are friends. So you think to yourself, right 100ml/4people that’s a shot each... wrong, it’s 100ml each. NASTAROVIE, now the drinking can start!