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==== Costs ==== | ==== Costs ==== | ||
Train fares beyond Warsaw are taken from | Train fares beyond Warsaw are taken from RealRussia and some chinese travel website. Cheaper flights may be available. These costs are for travel (which essentially includes most of our accomodation), but do not include food or other expenses. | ||
===== Trans-Mongolian ===== | ===== Trans-Mongolian ===== | ||
* London-Cologne: £92.50 urk, guess saturday's a bad day for eurostaring | * London-Cologne: £92.50 urk, guess saturday's a bad day for eurostaring. | ||
* Cologne-Warsaw: #42.4550258 if booked in advance | * Cologne-Warsaw: #42.4550258 if booked in advance | ||
* Warsaw-Minsk: £71.89 in 2nd class, possibly less in third. Warsaw-Kiev: £126.98 in 2nd class during the day, sleeper fares unknown | * Warsaw-Minsk: £71.89 in 2nd class, possibly less in third. Warsaw-Kiev: £126.98 in 2nd class during the day, sleeper fares unknown | ||
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* China: #45 | * China: #45 | ||
Minimum maximum total cost: #1746.8257211 (assuming return on Monday) | Minimum maximum total cost: #1746.8257211 (assuming return on Monday) We could always take the ferry to Amsterdam at the start, would save a little bit. | ||
===== Kazhakstan ===== | ===== Kazhakstan ===== | ||
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For more detailed planning see /LmmStreamOfConsciousness | For more detailed planning see /LmmStreamOfConsciousness | ||
I (Smith) am wary of costs here, as these may spiral wildly due to the financial corollary of Hofstadter's Law. I would attach quite a strong weighting to cheapness when considering these plans, and I also feel that the route to cheapness may be through simplicity of itinerary | |||