Not Trans Siberia!

Once again my plans have been under review. I found a Mongolian company that did short tours but when I returned to the site in order to make contact I discovered the site had dissappeared. This is too big a journey to risk discovering, at the last moment, that I have booked with an unreliable company, so I have changed my plans yet again. I will not go on to Mongolia this time. It will be much easier to add Mongolia to the Trans Siberian trip when I do it from Moscow, especially as there are frequent trains from Irkutsk to Ulan Bator but very infrequent trains from Beijing to Ulan Bator and those that run are subject to changes in day. I would have had to wait until the very last moment to discover what day I would be travelling to Ulan Bator and, more importantly, how I would get back to Beijing. Now I can be certain (is anything certain?) to be in Beijing for May Day, which is something I have wanted since I first discovered that my itinerary seemed to be panning out that way. I will also be able to have a more relaxed visit to China.