27.10.2014, 9.45-10.00 AM, the common room of Woori Guest house, Jung-gu, Busan — by Mikko on

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Ramen noodle soup, mushroom-vegetable flavour toast with strawberry (?) jam water

26.10.2014, 10.10-10.40 AM, Happy Day Family guest house, Gwangi-gu, Seoul — by Mikko on

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Our last breakfast in Seoul , and in this charming homestay. bean sprout soup rice soy sauce seaweed sheets 2 kinds o...

25.10.2014, 10.05-10.45 AM, a restaurant in the Siloam Jimjilbang, Seoul — by Mikko on

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Celebrating the weekend in a Jimjilbang – a Korean spa – where it's also possible to sleep overnight. Not much of a rest in the ...

24.10.2014, 9:05-9.45 AM, Happy Day Family guest house, Gwangi-gu, Seoul — by Mikko on

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It's not too hard to guess which of the three alternatives we chose the following morning. pumpkin soup with dried shrimp...

23.10.2014, 9:05-9.50 AM, Happy Day Family guest house, Gwangi-gu, Seoul — by Mikko on

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Trying to get vegetarian food in Korea can be quite a struggle. David, a friend of ours who used to live in South Korea, told us tha...

22.10.2014, 9.05-9.30 AM, Happy Day Family guest house, Gwangi-gu, Seoul — by Mikko on

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The “Continental” breakfast option: Corn flakes with milk tea lukewarm water

21.10.2014, 8:35-9:00 AM, Happy Day Family guest house, Gwangi-gu, Seoul — by Mikko on

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Breakfast was included in the room price at this lovely little family stay , and we could even choose from three options: “Continental”, ...

20.10.2014, 10.00-10.20 AM (Beijing time), cabin 441 of the "Yu Jin Xiang" ferry from Qinhuangdao, China to Incheon, South Korea — by Mikko on

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A whole new category to the blog: ferry breakfasts! We skipped the expensive buffet, though, and settled for: vegetable-flavour ...

19.10.2014, 07:00-07.30 AM!!, Fortune Hotel, Wensheng Jie, Qinhuangdao — by Mikko on

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To catch a ferry to South Korea, we had to travel first to Qinhuangdao (or basically any of the several cities along the northeast co...

18.10.2014, 9.30-10.00 AM, Dongsi North street, Dong Cheng district, Beijing — by Mikko on

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Our stay in Beijing ran up quickly – real quickly considering how interesting (and endless) a city it appears to be – as extending o...

17.10.2014, 9.20-10.00 AM, Dongsi North street, Dong Cheng district, Beijing — by Mikko on

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At lake Baikal we met Hwan Zhu, a youngster from Nanjing, and asked him to write down the sentence “we don't eat meat” in Mandarin ...

16.10.2014, 12.15-12.45 PM, Dongsi North street, Dong Cheng district, Beijing — by Mikko on

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We tried to have dinner in this place yesterday, but it was full. Not too many seats available for our lunch-time breakfast either, b...

15.10.2014, 12.30-13.15 PM, Dongsi North street, Dong Cheng district, Beijing — by Mikko on

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Travelling from Erlian to Beijing – first with a sleeper bus , and a taxi for the last 30 km – was strenuous (to put it in a nice way) ...

14.10.2014, 6.55-7.33 AM, train 034 from Ulan Bator to Erlian — by Mikko on

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What a night . We had ordered “hard sleeper” tickets, which we expected to be similar to the Russian Platskartny, but the compartment ...

13.10.2014, 8.45-9.05 AM, Zaya Guest House, Ulan Bator — by Mikko on

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Back in UlanBator , we got our last Zaya breakfast with, yes, whole apples. This was also our last breakfast in Mongolia, as tonight we...

12.10.2014, 9.50-10.30, Ecotourism Ger Camp, Terelj — by Mikko on

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After a freezing night in the ger (yurt), the prosperous breakfast with hot tea was a blessing, especially in the company of our new S...

11.10.2014, 8.05-8.30, Zaya Guest House, Ulan Bator — by Mikko on

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Yet again: a whole apple! Perhaps they start cutting them up after 9 AM? This morning we were heading out to the Mongolian countryside,...

10.10.2014, 8.15-8.40, Zaya Guest House, Ulan Bator — by Mikko on

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Still the same old breakfast; though the egg had a bit more salt, and the apple was served whole. Today we also got up a bit earlier, b...

9.10.2014, 9.00-9.30, Zaya Guest House, Ulan Bator — by Mikko on

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An identical breakfast to yesterday, except that today they also served water.

8.10.2014, 9.05-9.30, Zaya Guest House, Ulan Bator — by Mikko on

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We've previously mentioned the address of our breakfasts (if known), but in Ulan Bator this proved difficult for a surprising reaso...

7.10.2014, 22.20-22.35 PM (previous night), train E44 from Irkutsk to Ulan Ude & 11.05-11.10 AM, bus from Ulan Ude to Ulan Bator — by Mikko on

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Like with most of the previous train rides, we bought our train tickets in a vending machine, because the machine tends to speak better ...

6.10.14, 11.20-11.40 AM, The best Hostel Irkutsk, Ulitsa Karla Marksa 41 — by Mikko on

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Back at the hostel in Irkutsk, we gathered together a most ordinary breakfast on the tv table. It included: cookies, crackers and...

5.10.14, 11.00-11.40 AM, Ulitsa Lesnaya 7, Bolshie Koty — by Mikko on

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Regrettably for the diversity of this blog, we requested the same breakfast also for our last day in Bolshie Koty . However Ljuba, wh...

4.10.14, 10.15-11.00 AM, Ulitsa Lesnaya 7, Bolshie Koty — by Mikko on

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Another spectacular, brisk morning on the patio, breathing in the silence above the village. Today we would explore more of Baikal...

3.10.14, 11.00-11.30 AM, Ulitsa Lesnaya 7, Bolshie Koty — by Mikko on

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The first “eat out” breakfast of the trip! The guest house we are staying in is a small cluster of simple and incredibly cozy cabins ...

2.10.14, about 9,00-9.20 AM, The Best Hostel, Ulitsa Karla Marksa 41, Irkutsk — by Mikko on

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We stayed in Irkutsk for just one full day, but will be back on Sunday. The time in between we spend Bolshie Koty, a village of roug...

1.10.14, 12.30-13.15 PM (local time), The Best Hostel Irkutsk, Ulitsa Karla Marksa 41 — by Mikko on

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The biscuit-coffee breakfast provided by the hostel was a bit light, so we topped it up with: oatmeal porridge with raspberry jam...

30.9.14, 9.00-9.20 AM (Moscow time), train E44 from Tyumen to Irkutsk — by Mikko on

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By now we had lost track of the time zones: on the train everything happens in Moscow time. The local time must have been 3 or 4 ho...

29.9.14, 11.15-11.30 AM local time, train E44 from Tyumen to Irkutsk — by Mikko on

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A Platskartny breakfast just after the train left from Novosibirsk. All in all, the train ride from Tobolsk to Irkutsk took 53 hours...

28.9.14, 8.50-9.00 AM, Mikrorayon 3B, Tobolsk — by Unknown on

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A quick cocktail breakfast, as we didn't want to get any more dishes dirty. Yes, we were leaving Tobolsk , with a mid-day train to ...

27.9.14, 12.25-12.50, Mikrorayon 3B, Tobolsk — by Unknown on

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In Kazan, our host Ija introduced us to a berry that in Russian is called kalina , which she and her daughter ate straight from the bush...

26.9.14, 11.55-12.30, Mikrorayon 3B, Tobolsk — by Unknown on

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This breakfast included things we managed to obtain from a “Produkti” shop , where groceries are ordered from behind the counter – mean...

25.9.14, 12.50-13.20 Tobolsk time, Mikrorayon 3B, Tobolsk — by Unknown on

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Breakfast in the Tobolsk apartment's kitchen. For the first time, we have the whole apartment for ourselves. It's a nice 2-room,...