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** 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

** I (Smith) like this plan. Although I have no strong preference as to which end is train and which 'plane, going on the first version of the itinerary below it is likely that I will disengage from the group in Osaka and do my own thing (game) there, making my own way home. Also, I wouldn't object to removing Shanghai from the itinerary, assuming that doing so would actually allow us to get to Japan any more quickly, which it may not. Is it possible (financially or temporally) to fly from Beijing to Osaka?

** I (Smith) like this plan. Although I have no strong preference as to which end is train and which 'plane, going on the first version of the itinerary below it is likely that I will disengage from the group in Osaka and do my own thing (game) there, making my own way home.

*** Actually, thinking about it, I '''do''' have a preference; somehow using the TSR to come back to civilisation seems a lot lamer than using it as a route outward to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new perversions; to boldly go where no sensible man has gone before

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* Day n-8, Saturday: A little Shanghai in the morning, ferry at 13:00.

* Day n-9, Friday: I'm going to say spend this in Shanghai, and stay night in Shanghai.

* Day n-9 seems superfluous.

* Day n-10, Thursday: Day in Beijing, sleeper to Shanghai.

Eek, the only good train runs tuesday to monday.

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* Wednesday morning, 8AM: get the big train

* Monday afternoon: Arrive Moscow. Lamers could at this point fly home, meaning they'd only need 2 weeks + 1 day off work; otherwise we could take the rest of the week slowly crossing Europe.

Again, I'm not particularly sold on Shanghai so if it can be excised in favour of more Japan I (Smith) would offer my sincere condonances. But it looks like the only way to do that is to put too much flying into the mix

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 ** 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
-** I (Smith) like this plan. Although I have no strong preference as to which end is train and which 'plane, going on the first version of the itinerary below it is likely that I will disengage from the group in Osaka and do my own thing (game) there, making my own way home. Also, I wouldn't object to removing Shanghai from the itinerary, assuming that doing so would actually allow us to get to Japan any more quickly, which it may not. Is it possible (financially or temporally) to fly from Beijing to Osaka?
+** I (Smith) like this plan. Although I have no strong preference as to which end is train and which 'plane, going on the first version of the itinerary below it is likely that I will disengage from the group in Osaka and do my own thing (game) there, making my own way home.
 *** Actually, thinking about it, I '''do''' have a preference; somehow using the TSR to come back to civilisation seems a lot lamer than using it as a route outward to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new perversions; to boldly go where no sensible man has gone before
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 * Day n-8, Saturday: A little Shanghai in the morning, ferry at 13:00.
 * Day n-9, Friday: I'm going to say spend this in Shanghai, and stay night in Shanghai.
-* Day n-9 seems superfluous.
 * Day n-10, Thursday: Day in Beijing, sleeper to Shanghai.
 Eek, the only good train runs tuesday to monday.
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 * Wednesday morning, 8AM: get the big train
 * Monday afternoon: Arrive Moscow. Lamers could at this point fly home, meaning they'd only need 2 weeks + 1 day off work; otherwise we could take the rest of the week slowly crossing Europe.
-Again, I'm not particularly sold on Shanghai so if it can be excised in favour of more Japan I (Smith) would offer my sincere condonances. But it looks like the only way to do that is to put too much flying into the mix