Sometime during the first hours of the journey, our mobiles phones received messages welcoming us to China. A reminder of how close we are to another gigantic country, a totally different world. Moving along the border of Russian and China gives you a sense of being very small, but at the same time, of being present in the world.
Our new friends in WWF Vladivostok explained how they are working with their sister WWF organisation in China. They work to protect the same forest, the same (...)

The romance or love in this story might be left for discussion. Here it comes: A man took his wife to the Vladivostok station to see her off for the Tran-Siberian railway line all the way to Moscow. She was crying because she would not see her husband for six and a half days.
But after the train had left her tears quickly dried and she started to flirt. She spent the time on board flirting, and the staff on board suspected she did not sleep too often in her own compartment.
At the end of (...)