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Alpha
·I should really have shown the access to my earlier lake picture, quite something and sure you can excuse a couple of out of focus shots 😉
Taken in Switzerland on the train back to Geneva
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styggpyggeno1
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I travelled with the Transiberian railway in 1984 from Moscow to Beijing - stopping every 500 meters. Just 4 stops sounds wonderful...
When in Australia (same trip but monthes later) I drove from Sydney to Cairns - Pacific Highway no1. Bought a Ford Fairmont stationwagon (V8 auto) for 800 Aussie dollars in Sydney and sold it for 850 in Cairns.
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You must have used a pretty high shutter speed to 'stop' a tree so close to the train. Nicely done!
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anonimoman
·Alpha, your images from going up the mountain are incredible! Dialstatic, the train was going quite slowly, and the shutter speed was quite high. But I only realised what I had later on when I looked through what I had taken.
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·Ive done the trip via train a few times.
Last time I drove. I hit the gunbarrel hwy which is the longest straight stretch of road in the world at about 8.30 pm.
To keep myself amused I tried to work out how far away I could see oncoming headlights ... assuming the trucks were doing 100kph, I could see their high beams at a distance of 14 kilometers.
I then decided to count roadkill and worked out that there was a dead animal large enough for me to see approximately every 500 meters.
Then I started looking for a motel
Last time I drove. I hit the gunbarrel hwy which is the longest straight stretch of road in the world at about 8.30 pm.
To keep myself amused I tried to work out how far away I could see oncoming headlights ... assuming the trucks were doing 100kph, I could see their high beams at a distance of 14 kilometers.
I then decided to count roadkill and worked out that there was a dead animal large enough for me to see approximately every 500 meters.
Then I started looking for a motel
Pfffft......
Kids play, try going to Perth by train.
- Route: Sydney - Adelaide - Perth
- Duration: 3 nights in either direction
- Distance: 4352 kilometres
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flyingout
·I travelled with the Transiberian railway in 1984 from Moscow to Beijing - stopping every 500 meters. Just 4 stops sounds wonderful...
But there was Vodka on sale at those stops!
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styggpyggeno1
·Everything/anything could be bought for USD. Everywhere along the line and on the train. I was young and naive though - I did not understand that until it was too late. Thought it was strange that everyone got what they wanted at the restaurant on the train except me. Rubles bought you borsjtj, vodka and pepsi. Dollars bought you caviar and such. Yes, I was young...
The Chinese knew about this and when we got into China they had their own restaurant attached to the train and what nice food they served! I have never ate such nice chinese food before or since. Everything on the menu was there - no need for dollars.
The Chinese knew about this and when we got into China they had their own restaurant attached to the train and what nice food they served! I have never ate such nice chinese food before or since. Everything on the menu was there - no need for dollars.
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flyingout
·Everything/anything could be bought for USD. Everywhere along the line and on the train. I was young and naive though - I did not understand that until it was too late. Thought it was strange that everyone got what they wanted at the restaurant on the train except me. Rubles bought you borsjtj, vodka and pepsi. Dollars bought you caviar and such. Yes, I was young...
The Chinese knew about this and when we got into China they had their own restaurant attached to the train and what nice food they served! I have never ate such nice chinese food before or since. Everything on the menu was there - no need for dollars.
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styggpyggeno1
·The black caviar was not on the menu. Bought from a very nervous babushka who worked in the kitchen. I think we were both nervous - we were both doing something criminal. The blue can changed hands and I think I gave her 10 USD. I travelled alone but in my compartment there was an old Danish guy (old... probably younger than me today) and an Armenian. We ate the caviar on dark rye bread and drank sweet Soviet "Champagne" - champanskoje. The Danish guy started playing his trumpet. People got interested in what we were doing and then the party was on its way (track)...
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flyingout
·Nice. I had a similar experience despite it being post Soviet ('96). I checked my notes. We did use Rubles but I see that I exchanged for them in the dining car itself. We were a fairly small group of western travelers (I was also traveling solo) among the Chinese traders. And my notes from the Chinese dining car were stellar. Not so much once in Russia.
I regret not having the time to spend in Mongolia and Siberia. I had been traveling for 7 months at that point but needed to get home for a wedding and wanted some time in Moscow/St. Pete.
Despite being September, we actually got a dusting of snow through the Urals. The Zhivago's on our way to Varykino we were not.
I regret not having the time to spend in Mongolia and Siberia. I had been traveling for 7 months at that point but needed to get home for a wedding and wanted some time in Moscow/St. Pete.
Despite being September, we actually got a dusting of snow through the Urals. The Zhivago's on our way to Varykino we were not.
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CTS-V
·Those train pics are incredible!
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·Drove from Sydney to Darwin 4600 km in a Toyota Yaris. Couldn't drive at all between 6pm to 6am due to Kangaroo,s and all. Never seen so much road kill in my life in some places.( if a tourist saw this they would think someone drove a 1000km with a machine gun out the window)
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorI remember from a 2007 trip to Australia (stayed in Perth) that no cars below a certain size, mass and engine capacity were allowed outside city limits due to large animals on the roads. Not sure if it was law or car rental policy though...
Would have been a rental company rules. Hire a car for work in northern WA and same rules apply now.
Was heading to clear a live cattle export vessel for work and the shipping agent was on the plane before me and noticed him at the airport still when I arrived . Got chatting and he had hit a cow 20 minutes out of town and was back to pick up another hire car. Didn't even blink whilst telling me. 20 minutes out of town and here is he's 1st rental car wrapped around a dead cow.... Less than 2 hrs before...
Went fishing a few years back at 2am and hit 4 wallabies and a owl on the 2 and a half hour drive. Lucky I have a bull bar and have unplugged the air bags.....
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