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The DVD of the first Journey in China is now printed and available to buy at my SHOP. It has been a hugely fascinating project to create from start to finish. The project has been struggling financially towards the end of the year, and I have had to take ever more responsibility to keep it going.
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For the first time I see the end of my journey nearing. Body is feeling worn, and is being pushed, pushed. Mind feels fresh, and surprisingly so. It feels the journey is climaxing, as if, for some reason unknown to me, Russia is saving her most unexpected and deepest secrets till last. Perhaps she had to see that I am worthy of them, and yes, they do arrive earned only by hard miles, and the wrestling with her vastness. But at the last you do see her – thick skinned, powerfully set, limbs of iron…but at the last a kind heart, a soft centre, and a capacity for vulnerability. That is the Russia I see, and have come to cherish. A Russia defined by its people, it’s hospitality and it’s soul, and not by its politicians or its facade.
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A series of updates while on the Trans Siberian Express through Russia