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Tweets from Trans Siberia
13 May 2016At 13.50, Monday May 9th 2016 I left Moscow for Irkursk in Siberia, which is 5178km away. Without changing trains, I arrived at 08.47 (local time, Moscow +5h) the following Friday morning. These are the tweets from that journey.
My life for the next 94 hours pic.twitter.com/5icWaLlHxB
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 9, 2016
Luckily (or unluckily cos of boredom) I have a compartment to myself pic.twitter.com/4Xca6s1xO2
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 9, 2016
My coach is 2nd class, only half full and we're all Europeans. Just walked to the café coach and the 3rd class is PACKED with Russians.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 9, 2016
We have a little ritual every so often: everyone gets off the train to stretch, buy snacks and mingle pic.twitter.com/K3APs5ff1P
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 9, 2016
8 hours done, 86 to go
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 9, 2016
Sleeping on a train is like sleeping on a train, noisy and bumpy. Managed to walk onto a bridge this morning pic.twitter.com/Nf18uapRPm
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 10, 2016
A lot of this pic.twitter.com/bonRLNyyh3
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 10, 2016
A lot of time spent staring and shooting the breeze here pic.twitter.com/KMCxZHgP4Q
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 10, 2016
Lots of people come and go from my cabin. Like Anton, a Russian fisherman https://t.co/louLqnyANI He gave me these pic.twitter.com/KPSUyZ1ciE
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 10, 2016
Did I mention I'm on a train? Still. On a train.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 10, 2016
Not even half way
Arriving in Omsk, which means we're over half way pic.twitter.com/mnWO5UAWIT
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 11, 2016
Joined in my cabin by 2 Russian lads playing hardcore dance music and sipping on an unknown substance from a black plastic bag.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 11, 2016
Siberia pic.twitter.com/11jXoVcpwV
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 11, 2016
Have struck genuine rapport with one of the 'lads' (actually quiet and friendly) whilst the 'Americans' (Europeans) drunkenly sing next door
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 11, 2016
Every so often a chain of a dozen excited children pile through our carriage, they've taken to saying 'hi' to everyone and we say 'прывет'.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 11, 2016
I know realise that the Trans Siberian railway is actually just a theme ride created entirely from the mind of Wes Anderson.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 11, 2016
These folks, https://t.co/j52yU2tmv0 are using the journey to record an EP! pic.twitter.com/zg01DaFMCR
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 12, 2016
We not only pass through the cultural artefacts of one timezone per day, we also literally experience, surprisingly tangibly, 23 hour days.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 12, 2016
For Brits, weather is our staple of conversation. For Trans Siberians, it is the logistics and ontology of time.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 12, 2016
Last main stop. It's 1am. Just 7 hours, 400km to go. pic.twitter.com/GRY7I2r5hQ
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 12, 2016
It is done. I am in Irkursk. Have had breakfast with my airBnB host. I will shower. I have 2 days before another 24 hour train to Mongolia.
— Tom Buckley-Houston (@twombh) May 13, 2016