![]() “The very first train we took, we knew we’d be on it for three days but we didn’t think about a lot of things like what food to bring. On the Trans-Siberian railway, people aways wanted to interact, even if they didn’t speak any English.” Now I live in Scandinavia, where everyone minds their own business. ![]() I also encountered big groups, with families coming back from holidays. Then there were a lot of a lot of soldiers on leave. So there are usually a lot of students, especially during summer when they are going home for their summer break. Many of the people who take the railway do so because they can’t afford a plane ticket. “I thought it would be a much more touristy but actually the large majority of passengers were Russians or Siberians. The route isn’t as popular with Westerners as you’d expect #Trans siberia railroad story seriesAfter working on The Happy Show, her long-term photographic series on Denmark, she was looking forward to working on a travel project with a distinct beginning, middle and end. For photographer Giulia Mangione, it had been an ambition to take the 9000 km train route from Moscow to Vladivostok since studying Russian as a student. Other creative minds to have traversed Russia in this way include English magical realist novelist and short story writer Angela Carter, whose journey went on to inspire her enchanting 1984 book Nights at the Circus, and more recently The Kills’s Jamie Hince locked himself on-board one of the train’s compartments to work on the band’s next record. Bowie famously travelled the Vladivostok to Moscow route after finishing his Ziggy Stardust tour in Japan in 1973. ![]() For writers, musicians and filmmakers, the world’s longest uninterrupted single train ride promises a creative retreat on wheels. The Trans-Siberian railway has enticed not only travellers since it was first completed in 1904. ![]()
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