Krupskaya Siberia Tour 2018
In 2018, Krupskaya embarked on a tour of Siberia.
Over 9,000km in three weeks.
I kept a diary.
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Woah, we’re going to Siberia!
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From Birmingham to Saint Petersburg
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Lost within the trees of Moscow
- Matt puts his foot through the stage – talk about breaking a leg. He’s bleeding.I don’t care.
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From Red Square to an island forest in Nizhny Novgorod
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It’s like Fury Road, but shit
- While explaining the details, he departs for a quick pee against a wall. The sound that follows is akin to that of an avalanche and tidal wave of at the same time.
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I could stay here PERManently, heh heh heh
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Yekaterinburg is awesome
- We’re looking at around seven trizillion hours on this one. Or four, if you want to be pedantic.
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Tyumen, Welcome to Siberia
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We must be OMSK our way!
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NOvosibirsk show for us
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Tomskward, to Glory!
- I really dislike heights, incidentally. I really, really dislike heights.
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Tomsk and challenging my fear of heights
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Our Final Day in Tomsk
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Some place between Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk
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The wonderful city of Krasnoyarsk
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Irkutsk, city of Angels
- We eventually stop at a gas station for some supplies, a leg stretch and toilet time. Denis did warn us that the standard of toilet facilities would drop sharply in the East. He’s not wrong.
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The Big One, Lake Baikal
- I can’t say I’ve seen an absolute ton of lakes in my time, but absolutely none have dwarfed their surrounding landscape. The mountains, hills, trees and clouds all look positively miniature compared to the lake itself.
- The sense of enormity is difficult to capture. It’s something I’ve been struggling with for the duration of the time we’ve been in Siberia.
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Buryatia and the Sleeping Lion
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TV Appearance in Chita
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Is this the way to Blagoveshchensk?