The rest of July is mostly a mix of hanging out and getting ready to leave Huizhou. Conrad and Yen come to Huizhou for a visit a week after our trip to Xi Chong, and we get to say our final goodbyes, at least until we see them again in Canada.
Our original travel plan is to head out on Day 266 (Saturday July 25) - we've got our tickets booked and our hostel set and everything - but I catch a miserable cold and decide that a 28 hour train ride to Beijing just isn't in the stars that day. We postpone our trip a bit longer than expected - the train is booked for the next few days and so we get tickets to catch the train on Wednesday July 29.
Our short-term intinerary is as follows (most of the dates in Russia are guesses):
Thursday July 30 to Tuesday August 4 : Beijing
Wednesday August 5 to Friday August 7 : Trans-Siberian Train (via Mongolia) to Russia. First stop is Ulan Ude in Siberia.
Saturday August 8 to Tuesday August 25 : random travels along the Trans-Siberian (including Lake Baikal) towards the west
Wednesday August 26 to Monday August 31 : Moscow and the surrounding area
Tuesday September 1 to Wednesday September 30 : St. Petersburg
Thursday October 1 : flight home to Canada (with stopovers in Zurich and Geneva)
We hope to keep updating the blog as much as possible, but if necessary, we'll just do updates and post most of our pictures and stories once we're settled in St. Petersburg. (There will be free internet access at the Institute where I'll be taking a few lessons. And no anti-Blogger firewall!)
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