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This is Lmm's crazy plan, that attempts to combine trains, lots of trains, with getting to Japan.

Conclusions, based on leaving on a weekend:

* Fly there, train back means:

** Can spend most of a week (sunday morning -> friday midday) in japan

*** But notably doesn't fit a weekend, unless we extend it even further

* Get two and a half days (sunday midday -> wednesday 8am) in china - time enough to look around shanghai + beijing a bit

** Finishes on Monday in Moscow, at which point there's no elegant next thing to do.

*** Can fly to hurry back - cheating, but means only 11 days-off-work consumed

*** Can take the efficient sleepers, getting back wednesday, thursday or friday - inelegant

*** Could make it into a 3-week thing, meandering a little through europe - let's say Monday afternoon and Tuesday in Moscow, then overnight to St Petersburg for Wed, then overnight to Minsk for Thur, overnight to Kiev for Fri, overnight to Warsaw for Sat, overnight to Cologne for Sun. Or something like that.

* Train there, fly back means:

** Elegant first section through Europe - we can spend one day each in Cologne/Warsaw/Kiev/Moscow, or we could get to Moscow quickly and have pretty much two full days there.

** Not much time in China - we'd get a full day in Beijing, but like 3 hours in Shanghai

** Naturally arrives in Japan on a Thursday, at which point we either have a long weekend or get a (admittedly cost-effective) midweek flight back after a week or so

* Day 0, Friday: Dudes gather in and around London.

* Day 1, Saturday: Train to Paris/Brussels/Cologne and a day there. Overnight train to, let's say Warsaw. We could get to Moscow by Monday morning on a direct train, but the trans-siberian doesn't leave until Tuesday evening.

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 This is Lmm's crazy plan, that attempts to combine trains, lots of trains, with getting to Japan.
+Conclusions, based on leaving on a weekend:
+* Fly there, train back means:
+** Can spend most of a week (sunday morning -> friday midday) in japan
+*** But notably doesn't fit a weekend, unless we extend it even further
+* Get two and a half days (sunday midday -> wednesday 8am) in china - time enough to look around shanghai + beijing a bit
+** Finishes on Monday in Moscow, at which point there's no elegant next thing to do.
+*** Can fly to hurry back - cheating, but means only 11 days-off-work consumed
+*** Can take the efficient sleepers, getting back wednesday, thursday or friday - inelegant
+*** Could make it into a 3-week thing, meandering a little through europe - let's say Monday afternoon and Tuesday in Moscow, then overnight to St Petersburg for Wed, then overnight to Minsk for Thur, overnight to Kiev for Fri, overnight to Warsaw for Sat, overnight to Cologne for Sun. Or something like that.
+* Train there, fly back means:
+** Elegant first section through Europe - we can spend one day each in Cologne/Warsaw/Kiev/Moscow, or we could get to Moscow quickly and have pretty much two full days there.
+** Not much time in China - we'd get a full day in Beijing, but like 3 hours in Shanghai
+** Naturally arrives in Japan on a Thursday, at which point we either have a long weekend or get a (admittedly cost-effective) midweek flight back after a week or so
 * Day 0, Friday: Dudes gather in and around London.
 * Day 1, Saturday: Train to Paris/Brussels/Cologne and a day there. Overnight train to, let's say Warsaw. We could get to Moscow by Monday morning on a direct train, but the trans-siberian   doesn't leave until Tuesday evening.