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    Fear smells like chewing gum

    Our stay in Saint Petersburg finally reached its end: three days of exploration between channels and bridges, monuments and ancient estates, plus the unbroken chain of short storms five minutes after each other were about to leave the stage to the first part of our journey on a train. Even though the „Kilometer 0” of the Transsiberian railway is actually located in Moscow, my group and I were about to get our baptism of fire and spend the first of many nights to come in one of the train’s wagons.   It was a scorching summer day like any other, the perfect time to travel from one point of the…