We're home!!!

We landed at Logan as planned at 2:50 pm, all safe and sound. Happy students and instructors have dispersed into the Homeland.
This wraps up the Wellesley-Baikal blog for 2011. We hope you enjoyed following our scientific and cultural forays, and that you have ample opportunity in the near future to hear about them firsthand from course participants!
Signing off,
Tom

Made it to Heathrow

Had a great flight from Moscow to Heathrow. Looking forward to the last leg!
Tom

On our way to London!

We are on the plane, about to depart Moscow.
Tom

New flight info for Thursday 8/25

After a great deal of discussion with British Air, we arrived at the following flight schedule for the last legs of our journey:
BA 881, departs Moscow 5:50 am, arrives Heathrow 6:50 am
American Airlines 109, departs Heathrow 12:25 pm, arrives Boston Logan 3:20 pm
The Ramada Inn is comfy, but we'll be leaving it at 3.00 am. We can't wait to get home!
Tom

We're spending the night in Moscow

Well, our flight from Irkutsk was forced to circle the airport for 45 minutes, and that was enough to make us miss our Moscow-London flight, alas. So, the Siberian airline (S7) is putting us up at a Ramada Inn outside Moscow tonight, and we'll leave Moscow on a new British Airways flight early tomorrow morning. This should get us in to Logan by around noon on Thursday -- I'll post exact details soon. The fog from the Angara River, made of water from our beloved Baikal, is what kept us one day longer in Russia. More anon.
Tom

Departing Irkutsk!

We made it onto our flight and are departing Irkutsk at 3:00 pm, which will give us about 1:15 to make our connection in Moscow. We should be able to make this. Fingers still crossed,
Tom

Delayed in Irkutsk

The whole group is sitting and waiting at the airport in Irkutsk. Our flight was supposed to leave 90 minutes ago, but heavy fog has delayed the arrival here of the plane that's supposed to take us to Moscow. Our original itinerary had built in a 5-hour cushion between our arrival in Moscow and departure from there to London, so we have some leeway. Keep your fingers crossed!
Tom Hodge