A fantastic travel story's out in the current issue of Perceptive Travel, covering the unlikely combination of Russian train travel and moustache counting.
Perceptive Travel is a great online mag anytime, and this issue has one of the most delightful articles about train travel in Russia that I've ever read. Robert Reid starts his story like this:
"There's no way to know the precise percentage of Russian men who wore moustaches in the first decade of the 1700s, but if you're like me you've spent some time wondering about it."
Now if you're like me, you've probably never wondered about this at all, but don't let that stop you. The story goes on to describe his travels across Russia by train, intermingled with his quest to survey the moustache-wearing habits of modern Russian men. It even includes pie charts and bar graphs of the results of his survey! Don't be scared away by this mathematical element, head over to Searching the BAM For Russia's Lost Moustache and enjoy.
