Very relaxed Kazakh border guards wave us through without looking at out visas, let alone passports

With Marina in a Ger (traditional central Asian nomad's tent), Petropavlosk

The effects of vodka on truck drivers, Cafe Babooshka, Kazakhstan

Scott toasts the birthday girl as we try to escape the pull of the Cafe Babooshka with only a few hours and over fifty miles to go in order to make the border in time for our visa requirements

Being entertained by the DPS (traffic police) and the local chief of police, at a lake 100 miles north of Krasnoyarsk, with seven people and twelve bottles of vodka

Toby and his AK: Playing with a police Kalashnikov after consuming much vodka

The vegetarian

The Kill

Babooshka, Eastern Siberia

With Anatoli, Masha and Anastasia of the British Council, Irkutsk

Sprawling town, outside of Irkutsk

Dipping my feet in the freezing Lake Baikal (more of a raging sea really). Apparently this is meant to mean you will return to Russia

Rory's pyromaniac tendencies come to light between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk

With Doris, German transcontinental motorcyclists between Irkutsk and Ulan Ude

Vladimir Illyich Zentack