Friday 27th July 2018<\/p>\n
My first time on a train in Russia was last nights overnight sleeper to Moscow from Cheboksary. I chose the most expensive option, a First class cabin to myself which came with an evening meal & private shower\/toilet.<\/p>\n
It took nearly 13 hours todo the 474 miles including some extended stops, it has to said that this particular track is in a similar condition to the roads as it lurched along \ud83d\ude41 eventually I fell asleep only to wake up as it was parked in a sidings somewhere where it then sounded as if they were dismantling the undercarriage with a hammer \ud83d\ude41 Fitbit however thought I slept fine for nearly 7 hours including over 1 hour of REM sleep so maybe it was just a dream \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The station I arrived at in Moscow was only across the street from Lenin Station and with the bike already in a bag I thought I would get the St Petersburg express train to Bologoye ready for a local train to Ostashkov first thing tomorrow all went smoothly in the ticket office if somewhat expensively \ud83d\ude41 In Lenin Station while waiting I had an excellent breakfast at the bakery.<\/p>\n
The expensive ticket was somewhat ameliorated by a 2000 Ruble credit in the buffet car \ud83d\ude42 The track is a lot smoother than the overnight train but still not up to Japanese rides so just as well the train only gets up to 138mph<\/p>\n
In Bologoye one of the station workers took me under her wing helping me to get tomorrow’s ticket including the supplementary charge for baggage! She then showed me the station hotel 3 floors above the ticket office a good buy at 1,000 roubles per night and right where the one train a day leaves at 6am tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Hopefully the freight trains etc won’t keep me awake tonight although the first 17 years of my life my bedroom overlooked a freight line & occasionally express passenger trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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