Getting ready

Five weeks out 2 visas down and one to go..lucky last I hope.All the organising under the belt weeks ago..fingers crossed the train tickets(the powers that be will not let the tickets out of their respective countries) arrive at our hotels in Beijing and Irkutsk. Still hard to believe we are doing this....comrades Sue, Will and Jane will be good travelling companions(for me it is 100 years of friendhip between the 3)....Leningrad here we come!!!!..next post from Beijing