This morning's news is that Astrid is back safe from her amazing adventure in the East - almost. She phonedme from Berlin airport this morning to let me know she was safe and waiting for her Swissair flight back home to Basel. She's had some amazing adventures on the Trans Manchurian Express and the trip back was not uneventful - she had to reschedule and wing it all from Irkutsk when eveything went pear-shaped at the border and they ended up with Russian Border guards surrounding them with Kalishnikovs.
I'll leave the rest for later or a link to her blog when she finally gets settled in, unwinds from the trip, and writes up her tale of adventure on her blog. (Or phone me for details- assuming the reader knows me)
