In my novel, We Shall See the Sky Sparkling, Lily is an actress working in London at the end of the 19th century, who travels through Siberia in the middle of Winter and spends time trying to cross Lake Baikal which is frozen over. Read further on the amazing Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is an ancient, massive lake in Siberia, north of the Mongolian border. It is considered the oldest lake in the world, at 25–30 million years—and the deepest. The lake is surrounded by mountains a

In my novel, We Shall See the Sky Sparkling, Lily is an actress working in London at the end of the 19th century, who travels to St. Petersburg, Russia, and then through Siberia to Vladivostok, on the Trans-Siberian Railway. No railway has captured the imagination like the Trans-Siberian. Running almost 6000 miles long through some of the most inhospitable yet gripping landscapes on earth, it has seduced travelers and dreamers alike since its inception. Traveling across eight