It’s dirty. So said a Japanese road builder I met on the train in. He sits behind big dirty machines all day. And he thinks UB is dirty. Which it is. Soviet coal burning power stations corner the city, and you can see them belching black smoke as you come down from the mountains into […]
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Mongolian kids are cute. Volunteer army of the day: US Peace Force cramming out UB Guest House Ease of spending money in Mongolia: hard. guest house is 4 USD per night Number of Mongolian words known so far: one Cost of a 45 km bus trip: 30 pence
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Great money-making scheme: You’ve seen wakeboarding? Western Europeans like to party, and they like snowbaording. Russia has a train which costs you about 65 quid to travel 5000 km through the snow. So you tow a party load of rich young Western Europeans on snowboards behind the Trans-Siberian Express. And you let them party. Which
