Khabarovsk

this is what awaits Transiberian Lottie in Khabarovsk: long smelly men, who have had enough of their vertical life, and are dying to lay horizontally. Anyway, Transiberian Lottie, you will read this after having found a place to stay - but if where you are does not suit you, then head for the place where this picture was taken. Exiting the train station, across the big empty square, start for the river keeping on the right side of the big road, and you find it after a couple of hundred metres - it's like the cheapest place we found in the whole fuckin country. a couple of quid a night or something.
things to see in Khabarovsk: river amur, and maybe you should try and swim to china, which is the land you see just across the water. there is an amazingly soviet war monument if you head east from the main square by the river.
oh, mind the locals, they will try to do all sorts of things to you. on the other hand, hanging around in the huge fountain square at night guarantees making friends

that's it for now: how was the train? were you in plazkarny with half the russian army?