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This is | This is the crazy plan, that attempts to combine trains, lots of trains, with getting to Japan. | ||
== Approximate overall plan == | |||
* Days 0-4 (Fri - Tues) - Assemble in London, make our way to Moscow (in time to catch the Tuesday TSR) by $MEANS following $ROUTE. | |||
** Day 1, Saturday: Train to Cologne and a day there. Overnight train to Warsaw. | |||
** Day 2A, Sunday: Warsaw, explore it, overnight train to Kiev (or Minsk) | |||
** Day 2B, Sunday: Miles and miles of catholic monarchist farmland | |||
Alternately, spend the whole of today on the sleeper, arriving in Moscow on Monday morning, for more time in Moscow. | |||
* Day 3A, Monday: Kiev, explore it, overnight train to Moscow | |||
* Day 3B, Monday: Arrive in Moscow early in the morning, do tourism. | |||
* Day 4, Tuesday: Explore Moscow, catch TSR in the evening | |||
* Days 4-8 (Weds - Sun) - Miles and miles of godless fascist taiga | |||
* Day 9 (Mon) - Arrive Beijing, depart for Shanghai on the Beijing-Shanghai sleeper | |||
* Day 10 (Tues) - Arrive Shanghai, board ship for Osaka | |||
* Day 11 (Weds) - Miles and miles of akitsumikamiless democratic ocean | |||
* Days 12-14 (Thurs - Sat) - Japan | |||
* Day 15 (Sun) - fly home | |||
==== When to go? ==== | |||
* optimised for Comiket (December or August) | |||
* optimised for all that cherry blossom bznss (March?) | |||
* optimised for temperature in Siberia not being silly (Jun-Aug, probably) | |||
* optimised for leave allowance (March?) | |||
== Summary of below reasoning == | |||
Reasoning, based on departing on a Saturday: | |||
* Fly there, train back means: | * Fly there, train back means: | ||
** Can spend most of a week (sunday morning -> friday midday) in japan | ** Can spend most of a week (sunday morning -> friday midday) in japan | ||
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Broadly yes, actually. I (Smith) would recommend we draw the attention of the chat to this plan and see how quickly Philip shoots it down in flames<sup>W</sup>W<sup>W</sup>W^W raises some problem we haven't considered | Broadly yes, actually. I (Smith) would recommend we draw the attention of the chat to this plan and see how quickly Philip shoots it down in flames<sup>W</sup>W<sup>W</sup>W^W raises some problem we haven't considered | ||
....LOL | ....LOL | ||