Border Control collecting passports at the Mongolian border.
Changing the wheels in the middle of the night to suit the Mongolian railway.
Folding bunk beds to explore, play games and fall asleep on.
The ameniable conductor let us store the bikes and trailers at the end of a carriage.
It took half an hour to negotiate bypassing the security gate by going in the exit to get inside. Followed by a long time to organise and transfer everything directly upstairs to the platform gate (before it was opened) and back downstairs to the actual platform.
Exploring Beijing on the subway – also in rush hour – although without bikes.