Started organising this year’s holiday this afternoon – London to Beijing by train, via Brussels and Berlin, through Poland, then from Moscow on the Trans-Mongolian Railway to Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Naushki, Sukhe Bator, Ulan Bator, Dzamin Ude and Erlian, arriving just ten days after departure. Next year: Overland to Spitzbergen on pogo-stick.