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*** Apparently it is not as time-consuming as I (Smith) thought

*** six days four hours on the actual train, moscow to vladivostok (this is not allowing for touring time)

**** I (Smith) have also discovered a train called the Sibirjak that goes from Berlin to Novosibirsk

**** I (Smith) have also discovered a train called the Sibirjak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibirjak) that goes from Berlin to many interesting places: Novosibirsk, Kazan, Astana and the Russian-Abkhaz border

* Soviet Central Asia, China and Mongolia are also interesting places if we wish to go somewhere exotic

** Combining this and the above, I (Smith) note that one can go from Moscow to Beijing by starting out on the Trans-Siberian and changing at Tarskaya, and that this is in fact substantially shorter than going all the way to Vladivostok (a city that appears to have almost exactly the same level of merit as a destination in its own right as the Snowdon Summit Restaurant)

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 *** Apparently it is not as time-consuming as I (Smith) thought
 *** six days four hours on the actual train, moscow to vladivostok (this is not allowing for touring time)
-**** I (Smith) have also discovered a train called the Sibirjak that goes from Berlin to Novosibirsk
+**** I (Smith) have also discovered a train called the Sibirjak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibirjak) that goes from Berlin to many interesting places: Novosibirsk, Kazan, Astana and the Russian-Abkhaz border
 * Soviet Central Asia, China and Mongolia are also interesting places if we wish to go somewhere exotic
 ** Combining this and the above, I (Smith) note that one can go from Moscow to Beijing by starting out on the Trans-Siberian and changing at Tarskaya, and that this is in fact substantially shorter than going all the way to Vladivostok (a city that appears to have almost exactly the same level of merit as a destination in its own right as the Snowdon Summit Restaurant)