Bugger
An email from Dmitri at trainline.ru this morning left my holiday plans in disarray...There are no tickets, all trains is full.
Bugger.
I was originally told that I can't book until 1st August, and yet when that date arrives, the whole train is full. I am guessing that a tour operator went in first thing and block booked out all the tickets for their own customers.
So, what to do. Given that I have non-transferable tickets to Moscow on a certain date, and a non-transferable hotel room in and flight back from Shanghai, options are limited. A few have presented themselves one of which is to spend a few extra days in Moscow, and get the next available train to Beijing, which will arrive in Beijing just 3 days before I have to fly home from Shanghai. That would be an idiotic thing to do, spend all that time travelling somewhere only to return almost immediately.
Then I remembered, getting the train from Sheffield to Shanghai is an idiotic thing to do, that's kind of the point. I'm not going to Beijing, I'm travelling to Beijing. Besides, although I was really looking forward to spending some time in Beijing, I am planning to visit North Korea next year, which will also involve a trip to Beijing, so I can do the sights then.
It's time to email Dmitri back before the next train sells out.
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