In case anyuone is worrying I am indeed still alive, and in Irkutsk now. For the last few days I've been in a small village on the shore of Lake Baikal and as such out of touch (I was on the train before then as you know).
It's Saturday today (rather been losing track) which means I arrived in Listvyanka (I think that was the name of the village) on Wednesday where I've been staying in a small house. I met up with Mat and Andy again (having originally bumped into them in Moscow) the first day and we had a guide show us around the village and the lake museum and went out walking on the lake (it's covered with over a metre of ice). On Thursday we went snowmobiling on the ice and looked around a bit more. Most of Friday we spent doing cross-country skiing through the forest above the village. All in all it was an incredible three days. I havn't done much in Irkustk, I'm basically just stopping over here before getting the train in the morning (at 3 AM more or less).
I'll fill in some more details and maybe extend this entry a bit if I've got the time while I'm here. Otherwise the next you will here will be from Vladivostok.
Posted by Haifisch at March 22, 2003 09:32 AM