Just a quick one.

Ulaanbaatar seams a really cool place and the people seam on face value friendly and welcoming.

Only managed to get out of the city once which was to the national park north east of the city. I took a one night trip with two girls where we got driven out to the park and stayed with a family in a ger (traditional felt tent) for a night. The land scape was pretty cool and I managed to take a quick walk up to a little col before our horse riding. Our ger was heated by a wood burner which when on heated the ger to 38 degrees c and when off left you shivering. Well as you would expect the fire went out during the night an having gone to bed in my underwear only and with no blanket I woke up at 2am freezing, after bumping around in the pitch black ger I managed to find another bed with a blanket and crawled underneath; waking up half an hour later still just as cold I managed to get my sleeping bag out and and climbed into the bottom of it. On returning from the national park I tired to get train tickets to Beijing for the 2nd of March but could only get one for the 6th, not a huge issue as it gave me a few extra days to shift the cold I had picked up from trying to sleep in a ger at -16 without any clothes or a blanket.