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* Leave Xian by 21:02 Friday, or leave Lanzhou 13:16 Fri (T166/T163, arriving Shanghai at 11:15)
* Leave Xian by 21:02 Friday, or leave Lanzhou 13:16 Fri (T166/T163, arriving Shanghai at 11:15)
* Leave Urumq at 14:54 Thursday, arriving in Lahzhou at 11:50 (T296) - totally doable if we can get to Astana for 15:10 on Tuesday.
* Leave Urumq at 14:54 Thursday, arriving in Lahzhou at 11:50 (T296) - totally doable if we can get to Astana for 15:10 on Tuesday.
* We can get to Astana on Tuesday morning if we leave Moscow on Saturday night, 22:45 most Saturdays
* Which means we need to leave Cologne by probably 11:28 - or leave Brussels at 09:28 - just after the earliest eurostar, urgh. Might be nicer to take the Eurostar on Thursday evening and catch the Cologne sleeper. Eurostar can get into Lille by 09:07 or Brussels by 09:42. Gah, this must totally be doable.
Conclusion: it is doable, and it does give us an extra 3 days in Japan at the cost of only taking Friday off. But it's a  fair bit of faff - we'd need to align our dates correctly with the insane Moscow-Astana timetable (actually quite easy to do, just one out of four weeks would be bad), and this changing trains in China to go faster bsns sounds fraught with Peril. But it's worth considering.