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 * Leave Shanghai at 13:00 on Saturday 3
 * Leave Urumqui by Thursday 2
-* Leave Astana on 10th March.
+* Leave Astana on 9th March at 21:05
+* Or leave Aktogay on 10th March at 10:54 (7:54 Moscow time)
+* Leave Novosibirsk at 16:52 on 8th March. And need to spend a night in Aktogay, urgh.
+* Would need to leave Moscow at 00:35 on the 6th, urgh.
+* Leave Tashkent 14:25 on the 8th, assuming Almaty is where we actually need to be on the 9th.
+* No, Almaty is where we need to be on the *10th*, leaving at 23:55. Awesome. (Arrive Urumqi at 8:58 on the 12th).
+* Still need to leave Tashkent on the 8th :(
+* Assuming I actually want to leave Shanghai on the 17th, when do I really want to enter china?
+* Spend 16th in Shanghai
+* Spend 15h in Xian?
+* Worst case, leave Urumqi 17:14 on 14th, arrive Shanghai 13:58 on 16th.
+* If I want that day in Xian, leave Urumqi night of the 13th, arrive Xian morning of the 15th.
+* So can totally get away with departing Almaty 23:55 on the 12th, arriving Urumqi 08:58 on 14th
+* So could leave moscow on 7th and kill time in Almaty
+* Or leave Tashkent 14:35 on the 11th, arriving Almaty 15:57 on the 12th
+* Leave Samarkand at 10:00 on the 11th, arriving Tashkent at 10:30
+* Or leave Urgench at 16:45 on the 10th, arriving Tashkent at 11:25
+* Leave Saratov on the 5th, urgh.
+* It's possible to leave Saratov on the 9th and arrive Tashkent 16:35 on the 12th. If we can then get to Almaty by 23:55 then all is good.
+* Could get the bus from Almaty to Urumqi, urgh.
+* Maybe leave Aktogay 10:54 on the 13th, arriving Urumqi 08:58 on 14th.
+* Leave Novosibirsk 16:52 on the 11th, have to stay night in Aktogay or somewhere.
+* Could leave Moscow on 8th or early hours of 9th. Not really very good though.
+* Really want to arrive Urumqi on 13th and spend it there, then 15th in Xian and 16th in Shanghai or something.
+* wait what, we *can* leave almaty on the 11th, and do just that.
+* And then leaving Moscow on the 7th and arriving Almaty on the 11th works beautifully.
+* Or maybe there isn't such a train. Time to phone up real russia.
 * Arrive Moscow Tuesday 1 morning
 * Arrive Almaty Saturday 2 morning, or Astana Friday 2 morning, hopefully.
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 * Arrive Urumqi Monday 2 morning, great, got basically a week in china.
 * Alternately leave Astana Tue, arrive Urumqi thur morning, then go fast through china.
+* If we leave *Astana* on the 9th, then arrive Urumqi on the 12th (having traveled via Almaty, but that's fine)
+* If we leave Almaty on the 10th at 23:55, then arrive Urumqi on the 12th at 08:58
+* There may or may not be a train leaving Astana at 21:05 on the 9th.
+* Either way, can get to Almaty on the 10th having left Moscow on the 7th: leave at 13:20, arrive Ekaterinburg at 17:38 on the 8th, leave at 18:03, arrive Karaganda at 00:05 on the 10th, then get to Almaty at 16:32.
+** Or so as not to be changing trains in the very middle of the night, arrive Astana at 19:35 on the 9th ready for the 21:05 to Almaty.
+** Will have arrived in Moscow at 06:43 (having left Kiev at 20:52), so leaving at 13:20 is not so bad.
+** Wait, this actually leaves me with *extra* time in Moscow (and also in china) - had been expecting to leave on the 6th.
+** The 19:25 from Astana arrives Almaty at 07:46; maybe that's better, if arrive in time in Astana.
+** Can arrive Tashkent 18:25 on the 9th, but we knew that already I guess.
+** If we leave Moscow at 23:59 on tue 6th (as keikaku), we then arrive Astana at 18:25 on the 9th, ready for the 19:25 fast train to Almaty, arriving on the morning of the 10th. Bingo!
+* So, what to do with the extra time from arriving in China on Mon 12 rather than Wed 14?
+** See more of China, I guess
+** If I went straight to Beijing, would arrive at the same time as the TSR - though even then, have gained a day's looking around Astana.
+** Leave Urumqi 17:14 on Mon 12th, arrive Shanghai 13:58 on Wed 14th. Spend some days there.
+** Alternately: Leave Urumqi 17:14 on wed 14th, arrive Shanghi 13:58 on Fri 16th, then I'm leaving on the ferry at 13:00 on Sat 17th.
+*** So leave Almaty 23:58 on Mon 12th
+*** Leave Moscow 23:10 on Thur 8th (or 13:20 on Fri 9th if don't need a whole day in Almaty).
+*** Could leave Tashkent 01:15 on Sunday 11th, spend 8 hours of the 11th in Timur and then get the overnight train to Almaty, arriving 11:33.
+*** The direct Moscow-Tashkent train arrives in the evening, could leave moscow 23:10 on wed 7th and arrive there 20:05 on the 10th.
+*** Could leave Chimkent at 18:10 on Sunday 11th.
+*** There's a fast overnight train from Odessa to Kiev, could spend Wed 7th in Kiev and Tue 6th in Odessa, if I can get there in time
+*** Sleeper from Lvov to Odessa - spend Monday 5th in Lvov
+*** Sleeper from Minsk to Lvov, sort of.
+*** Let's give up on Lvov, try going to Odessa.
+*** There's a sleeper from Berlin to Odessa - leave 16:22/16:50 on Sunday 4th, arrive 05:36 on Tue 6th.
+*** Amsterdam-Berlin is an easy sleeper. In fact, it's going to Prague. Alternately, Warsaw rather than Berlin.
+*** Can leave Chimkent at 22:00 on Sunday 11, or later.
+*** Can leave Bishkek at 10:33 on Sunday 11, sort of - this is Chimkent service again, changing in Lugovaya. Still: Leave Bishkek 22:53 Saturday 10th, arrive Lugovaya 06:58 Sunday 11th, leave Lugovaya 00:40 Sat 11th, arrive Almaty morning of Mon 12th.
+*** Can leave Tashkent on thursday 8th, arriving Almaty mid-afternoon on Friday 9th.
+*** Can go Samarkand-Tashkent on the 8th in the day.
+*** There's a direct train Samarkand-Almaty leaving morning of wed 7 and arriving evening of Thur 8
+*** Or leaving tue morning and arriving thur evening with days in Tashkent and Timur
+*** Leave Timur 19:11 on Sun 11, arrive Almaty 11:33 on Mon 12
+*** Leave Tashkent 22:15 on Sat 10, arrive Timur 06:47 on Sun 11.
+*** But can't get there from Samarkand.
+*** Leave Atyrau 15:00 on Thur 8, arrive Almaty 15:55 on Sat 10 - or leave Sat and arrive Mon.
+*** Leave Baku 23:30 on wed 7, arrive Atyrau 04:15 Sat 10, with day in Astrachan in between
+*** Can't get there from London.
+*** Can get to Atyrau on Sat by leaving Kiev on Wed, get 4 hours in Volgograd on the way. Presumably could leave Kiev on Mon and get to Atyrau on Thur.