Ice-Holes! An Englishman's Year in Siberia


Monument to 1905 revolutionaries, Chita


Chita balconies in spring


Aginsk Datsan


Stupa, Aginsk Datsan


Stupas, Aginsk Datsan


Lake Baikal


Aginsk Datsan


Chita Cathedral at sunset


Chita, winter 2006


Aginsk, Orthodox church


View of Chita from Titovskaya Sopka


Decembrists' church- Chita's oldest building


The fountain in Chita's Lenin Square, shortly before activation


Bar 'conflict menu' breakage price list. Breaking the decorative ship will set you back four grand


Jason the mad American monk, and I, in Lenin Square


Uranium mine, Krasnokamensk


View of Chita from Titovskaya Sopka


View of Chita from Titovskaya Sopka


Mongolia, late summer 2005


Mongolia – locals watch the wrestling


My Dad visits Chita


'Prorub'- swearing loudly in English after dipping in a frozen lake- air temperature -20C


How Russians usually park their cars


Headquarters of former KGB, spring 2009, Chita


Sunset at Chita railway station, 6198km from Moscow


Sunset at Chita railway station, 6198km from Moscow


Permafrost often sinks the older wooden houses in Chita


To Berlin! Victory Park, Chita, 2009


Typical Russian evening


I came home one day and the bath was full of mushrooms


Drinking vodka, spring 2006. I don't often do this- honest


The Decembrists' church, Chita


My Dad tries 'pozi', the popular local Buryat dish of steamed meat in pastry


Ice sculptures, Lenin Square, Chita, early 2005


Mongolians ponder what to do next


Mongolian wrestling match


Watching Lokomotiv Chita, 2005


Ice-Holes! An Englishman's Year in Siberia