THE LONG JOURNEY SOUTH! (Train from St. Petersburg to Sochi) 🇷🇺

Welcome to the midnight train to Sochi. In fact it's not actually midnight, it's eight o'clock. When it feels like midnight it feels like we've been walking four hours. We're in wagon one. We started at 16 and we walked like a quarter of the way to Sochi already I think. We are dripping with sweat. So we're on board this train for the next, how long, 36 hours? Two nights. Two nights. We're arriving on Wednesday morning. It's interesting, this is quite a bit different to the trains, the overnight trains we've been on in the Caucasus and in Uzbekistan, even in Siberia. Actually yeah, I mean this is really modern. This is a two-story train and to be honest we don't need to talk about it because we're going to show you over this next time. So welcome along, welcome on board. Let's go to Sochi. We're in a coupe and to be honest this train only had two options. It had spani wagon or sleeping wagon and coupe which is like this where you've got the two beds at the bottom and the two at the top. We've actually booked two top beds but there's no one in here yet and we've looked and so far we've got no one on the road. And we are hoping that there will be more. In which case we've got like a private cabin to ourselves for the price of an upper bed on a coupe which are cheaper by the way. So once this dude shuts up we're gonna give you a room tour and we'll tell you a bit more about the cabin itself. We have a little problem. Matt had his tooth out today literally just before we went on the train journey and we took some food with us but it's not like for tomorrow. We were literally racking our brain as to what we could take and we took a couple of noodles, instant noodles. It needs to be like soft stuff doesn't it really? Yeah for at least for the next few days ideally for a week and we could order some food. So we ordered pasta on the train and coffee. So let's see how he's never had food on a train in my entire life. So they cook it in the restaurant car don't they and then they deliver it to your room. Yeah the lady just popped over and she gave us the menu and she's like this is what you can have. So we got this but we should be sorted with food for tomorrow. We should have enough but not tonight. This is actually our first meal of the day. We'll edit that out. You'll look awesome. No I won't. Just a lump of cheese. Well at least it's good it's not hot for you. Out of 10? Out of 10? 4. Decent I'm happy with that. It's edible. It's good that's all I need. We are off to bed and one thing we wanted to say about this train is that we've never seen that before anywhere. The bed was made for us. Normally they just leave it on the side for you you know for you to do it but this one is already made. Especially it's a pain in the arse to do it at the top one and we're sleeping on top so that's amazing. We are off to bed though. Good morning from god knows where to be honest. This is the level of service you get here on the Russian trains. We were woken up this morning by our breakfast being delivered. Let's tuck in. So last night when we ordered dinner we ordered breakfast in advance as well we said to her can and we've just got an omelette with a bit of cucumber and salad on the side and the price of that was 400 roubles so about four pounds five or six dollars which is obviously a little bit inflated but breakfast on a train breakfast in bed on a train. So for some reason we're going backwards now. We don't want to go back to St Peter's Park. We love it. As we showed you on some other train journeys as well you can get free hot water when you're on the train so we got this before we left St Petersburg which is just like instant mash basically and we got some noodles as well and yeah you can just go downstairs and use the hot tap whenever you want so we filled it up. Smells all right actually. Just need to wait a bit and apparently this train as well we have normal drinking water. Yeah yeah which is a knock too. I think I put my body under so much stress this last week in St Petersburg and we didn't sleep at all because we were staying with my friend we were just talking till very late. Every night we're like we're gonna go to bed early tonight. So yeah I'm not quite with it. Now I feel better. With it enough to make noodles though. Oh yeah. All the goodness a growing girl needs. Oh I'm so scared actually. There are so many kids like running around. Like there is uh obviously like boiling water here. I'm so scared. And they can burp as the train's back here. Okay let's show you around the cabin now. This is my bed. This is Matt's bed. The bottom bed but we have no neighbours so this is our downstairs. This is our upstairs. This is the table and we are collecting the mugs that we love and all our stuff is underneath that. You can actually lift it but that's simple. Oh no it is very simple. Just like that and then you click it back. That's pretty much it. Well I would say this is the cleanest train we've ever been on and uh the lady like this morning the lady that works for the train she came over and she hoovered and stuff but the only thing is the difference we've only been in Coupe once before but there was a lot more space at the top when we could actually store our clothes sort of behind Matt right there but here you can only put it underneath. I guess no one kind of comes with the amounts of luggage that we do on trains like that. And also I love the addition of this mirror. Oh they're also hangers but if you don't have any films to watch or books to read you're done with looking out the window you can just stay at yourself the whole time. Also you've got these lovely little lights that actually work as well which is a first for us. You can tell who's an electrician. Yeah and also there's lots of plug sockets down here there's four so one for every person or if you're greedy like us and we don't have neighbors two each. Goodness. These trains actually got two floors and we're on the second floor let's go and show you around. Toilets there are the venus and there are three toilets they're really decent toilets got the flashy paper and even hand towels this is the bottom floor and you can get the hot water from here and this is the drinking water and we're back. We're almost there it's like 30 minutes left I can't wait you know that feeling when you really need the loo and by the time you get in the lift and like you're really close getting in your house and you can't hold anymore that's how I feel right now I can't wait anymore that um willpower is leaving me oh no it's not going to work the same way is it I bet that's not your stereotype of Russia. Dolphins see all sorts all sorts here all right 37 hours later time to go let's get our bags on to be honest we'll be looking forward to getting off but not getting our bags back on. I can't see to be honest there's not much need for these coats it's like 16 degrees so we just ordered a taxi and we'll see you at home. So we came upstairs and we started talking to everyone and ended up chatting for ages and then we went to see my mom and her work is quite far so we just came back and let me introduce you everyone we're just getting ready to have some dinner oh and we cooked some food earlier on with my sister so well this is my sister and this is my gran and this is my brother I'm your brother and that's the husband you know him by now so yeah we're just gonna have some dinner so everyone's cooked for us and Julia's sister's made chicken with potatoes hey we made it together and Julia's gran has made or herring under a fur coat which is a traditional Russian salad so yeah we are so hungry let's begin Do you know what else we're good at? Eating. We all know how to do that. It's true.