Ural Hotel Perm
ulitsa Lenina 58 Perm, Privolzhsky, 614000, Russian Federation
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Hello Sailor!
With another day to go on the Irkutsk to Yekaterinberg leg of our Trans-Siberian train journey left to go we're were starting to get a little bit of cabin fever. The radio in the carriage was playing, on repeat, Russian polka music. There is only so much "dat, dat, dat, hey! dat, dat, dat, hey!" and "da svidaniya, da svidaniya, da svidaniya, hey! …
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Päivä 5.
... Korttia on läiskitty, noppaa heitelty, muzaikkia kuunneltu ja lueskeltu. Täällä on ainakin aikaa rauhottua ja amiraali saa lepuutella kipiää koipeaan. Epäilemme akillesjänteen lievää tulehdusta. Tämä on siis ihan kotilääkärin diagnoosi.
Muutama tunti sitten käytiin vähän täydentämässä muanavarastoa, kun ei toi ravintelituubi oikeen kiinnosta. Matkaan tarttui yllättäen nuudeleita (nyt pitäs olla kyl ...
Perm
... Gulag-lejr, som er tilbage fra det kommunistiske sovjetiske regime og fungerede som en fængsels- og arbejdslejr for kriminelle, men hovedsageligt for politiske fanger, som havde ydet virke mod det sovjetiske styre. Lejren var aktiv fra 1946 til 1987 og havde i denne årrække officielt 20.000 fanger indsat, hvoraf en stor del døde pga. det hårde fysiske arbejde og kummerlige forhold. Da Gorbatjov i slut 80'erne beordrede alle lejre lukket, blev de indsatte ...
The Trans-Siberian Railway Begins
... which cost about £10 equivalent. Not bad. I don;t have a scrap of food with me, just a bottle of water from Moscow, so I have to buy all my food down the dining car.
The train rattles and shakes and jerks violently at times with great clanging noises. We cannot open the windows and our only fresh air comes for 10 minutes or so at the brief station stops. Its bitterly cold out there...
The journey continues....
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Back in the USSR...
... places of interest on the trail, I was most interested in the statue of “Salty Ears”. Here is the story of how the statue came to be the symbol and nickname of the city:
in the 1800’s salt miners carried sacks of salt on their heads from the mines to ships. The salt would leak from the sacks onto their ears and irritate them. When the porters went into town, their inflamed ears were ...



