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Taking the Train across Russia | Wendy, The Nomadic Vegan | Ep 11
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On today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Wendy Werneth who will be sharing her recent experience of one of the world’s epic train rides, the Transiberian Railway throughout Russia. She explains why and how she decided to do this trip as well and of course answer the questions we all want to know; was there anything to eat on this train? Wendy creates fantastic content which you will certainly be inspired by.
Timestamps
4:10 What is Nomadic Vegan about? What’s Wendy’s vision?
7:38 Summary of Wendy’s trip.
9:00 Why Wendy wanted to travel to Russia and why she didn’t do it earlier (hint: Russian visas are hard to get)
11:00 What were Wendy’s preconceptions about Russia?
16:00 Wendy discusses the Trans Siberian Express journey: tickets, classes of train and food available and ideas for food.
26:10 Overnight trains generally! We love them!
32:40 Information about the Great Baikal Lake in Siberia
37:00 Was it all worth it to travel here as a vegan?
41:26 Georgian cuisine (very vegan friendly)
Learn more about what we talk about
- Hiking the Great Baikal Trail in Russia
- Where to Find Vegan Food in Russia
- Things You Need to Know about Russia
- Russian Travel Tips
- Your Complete Guide to Visiting the Kazan Kremlin
- Things to do in Mongolia
- Train tickets online over multiple European countries Trainplanet
- Train Planet
- Visa information for Russia (Russian Embassy London)
- Sweden reveals tentative plans for overnight trains to several European cities
- Sweden to London on an overnight train
- The St Petersburg vegans cooking up a revolution
- Great Baikal Lake Wikipedia
- Wendy’s Tuscany trip and Lisbon
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