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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

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2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




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Friday, 9 June 2017

Beijing to Moscow by train – ornate Mongolian restaurant car



The ornate Mongolian restaurant car 
on the Beijing to Moscow train

Although all of the accommodation carriages on the 'express' from Beijing to Moscow stayed on for the whole journey, the restaurant cars change every time you move from one country to another. We had three restaurant different restaurant cars – one in China, on in Mongolia and one in Russia. 

Although perhaps surprisingly we had the best food served in the Russian restaurant car, the Mongolian wiped the floor with the competition in terms of ornate decoration as these two pictures show. 

 Details of the decor in the 
Mongolian restaurant car

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