In hindsight, hiring bicycles to explore a predominantly sand-based landscape is a bit of an error, but by…
We were picked up at 8am by our chain smoking bus driver, who had three fingers on each…
We spent our one night in Yekaterinburg holed up in a granny flat on the fifth floor of…
It was still raining when we reached Kazan station and headed to Coach 4, where a small crowd…
We were to spend just one night in Kazan, so upon arrival wasted no time in finding the…
Elliot’s 2009 work trip to India was the only previous overnight train we’d taken between us and his…
Any elation at having successfully bonded with our Russian comrades quickly waned when we reached the Fabrika Gallery…