Today, my railway journey from πΉπ Bangkok back to π«π· Alsace finally begins.
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Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to 
Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the 
subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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@lewd Ich drΓΌcke Dir die Daumen fΓΌr eine ruhige Reise.
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Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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I've done a few trips from London to China. London, Paris, Milan, Athens, Istanbul, Tehran, Pakistan, India, China. Parts of the Middle East were something of an adventure. Never really knew what was going to happen next
. Rockets and bullets. Istanbul was like arriving back in civilisation once again. The Indian/Pakistan border war is always a problem to negotiate. -
Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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@lewd Wondering how this journey goes, Iran is a no-go I think and Russia a maybe so I think it might involve a boat.
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Good to see it was a worthwhile journey
. I'll look forward to seeing the rest of it. 
Reminds me of some of the trips that I did -
Yeh .. I've done most of that myself. On one trip I found myself talking to Joanne Lumley on the train back from China to Siberia and Moscow. What a trip that was
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Definitely not on my bucket list for today : I won an overnight stay in
Boten, the special economic zone right at the border to 
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Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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@lewd Safe travels!
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Sounds adventureous! Thank you for sharing. -
Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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@lewd safe travels!
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@lewd I suppose there will be a the train but tickets will only be sold at Manzhouli.
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@lewd I don't know if there are any check-in gates at Manzhouli. If so, there must be some way to obtain tickets before.
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@lewd No. Only a few high-speed routes so far. I'm aware, I need to change this.
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@lewd Thinking on it, it would make a very twisted kind of sense to mark Chinese traditional train classes as Π‘Πͺ, Π‘Π¬, ΠΠͺ, ΠΠ¬
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@lewd safe travels!
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@lewd
envious.
.. And I wish I could get Douyin. Tiktok, I check the uBO panel every few days to see if the Ggl trackers show up. -
@lewd Presumably because they don't expect the heating to keep up with the tempurature dropping deep into freezing as you climb? Hmm, doesn't explain the luggage thing, though
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After 10 hours, I reached my final destination for day 5 of my journey :
Manzhouli. I quickly figured out how saying "I speak English" in *Russian* is the most important conversational skill to survive here as a foreigner. Fair, the city is populated by more Russian-speaking than Chinese- and Mongolian-speaking residents together and neighbors to 
Zabaykalsk in Russia.The experience at the railway station was peak
CR service : Three employees at the ticket office, in the middle of the night with no more train today. Of course, they could *not* sell me a ticket to Irkutsk and explained me I'd need to buy this in Beijing. Only bad, that in Beijing Zhao at the international ticket office, they explained me there are no trains to Russia.At least we all agreed there in fact is a train leaving to
Irkutsk tomorrow at 2 p.m. and they suggested that one of the many Russian travel agencies will likely be able to issue me a ticket.My hotel was also highly confused how I don't speak Russian, also cannot fill a form entirely in Russian, didn't want to pay in Russian Rubel and showed them a foreign passport that was neither Russian nor had it a Chinese visa.
At least the receptionist told me there's a Russian travel agency right next to the hotel and she was convinced they could sell me
tickets.After all, this will be my quest for tomorrow.
Good night Fedi
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Today, my railway journey from
Bangkok back to Alsace finally begins.Marking the start of my trip, I visited the Hua Lamphong railway station. The beautiful building with a huge departure hall, flowers and fountains is sadly only served by
commuter trains and the subway in present times since the mainline operations were completely moved to the new Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in 2016.Nevertheless, the railway station nowadays hosting a museum with beautiful old Thai trains serves as an excellent location to start my trip : I will spend the next two weeks all on trains : Sleeper trains, high-speed trains and adorable regional trains will hopefully safely guide me for 17.000 km on rails spanning from Thailand via China, Siberia and the Ural to Europe.
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@lewd insane? /pos
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@lewd is my spirit animal
