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Six Ways to Cross a Mongolian Street (at a Pedestrian Crossing)
#1 – Flag down a taxi (advised) and gesture four lanes across to the other side of the street. Don’t worry about confusing the driver, he’s used to this. Hot tip from one who knows: when choosing a taxi look…
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A Sign-Off from the Motherland
We’ve been in Moscow three days and this is the first chance we’ve had to check in to an internet cafe and attend to our internet communication duties and such. But it hasn’t been our first attempt. Yesterday we got word…
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Long-Hand Travel Journal; dated January 22
5:01am on a night train from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. Third class. The carriage is stacked with row after row, level after level of sleeping, sweating, snoring bodies crammed into foldaway bench beds like a school of still-thrashing sardines in a vacuum-sealed…
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How To Contract Jet Lag from a Two-Hour Flight
1) Fly Ryanair, preferably on one of their famous predawn night flights where check-in closes at 5am sharp. Leave your bags to the whims of their famous baggage carriers and make your way to the departure gate, where you and…
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