Best Eastern Hotel Sibir Novosibirsk

... a huge array of animals, who knows where they all came from. Everything from camels to monkeys to llamas to lions to dancing bears to horses to dalmatians to parrots to a boxing kangaroo!
I was blown away by the acrobatic skills; Japanese dressed in fluorescent yellow and travelling down slides on their heads. My utmost favourite were the mummies dancing to Michael Jackson. Thriller never ceases to put a rhythm in my bones. The mummies were capable of doing ...

Oje, oje. Die letzten Tage sind vergangen wie im Flug. Wir haben Edi, den Offizier, Sergej und Vladik, die Mechaniker bei der Eisenbahn sind, und Edis Soldaten, Alexej, Sergej und noch ein paar andere Russen kennengelernt. Seit dem gibt es keine ruhige Minute mehr. Wir unterhalten uns mit Händen und Füssen auf russisch, polnisch, deutsch, englisch und wie Edi festgestellt hat auch po kristinski. Natürlich fließt jede Menge ...

... en retard mais je m'y mets. Peut etre est-ce une mauvaise direction, Que dans 6 mois, je manquerais d'action, Alors moi seul prendrais la decision, De reprendre du service ou non. D'main, je rentre du cote de la France, C'est deja la fin des vacances, D'main, le futur m'appartiendra j'pense, Merci a la vie pour toute cette chance. Man'U *(faut prnoncer -er mais ya pas d'accent sur les claviers russes)

... wurden wir positiv ueberrascht. Alles war sehr huebsch eingerichtet und sauber. Wir fuehlten uns sofort wohl. Novosibirsk hat nicht so viel zu bieten wie Moskau. Dennoch ist es interessant zu sehen wie man im uebrigen Russland so lebt. Es gibt nette Cafes und die Menschen sind offener und freundlicher als in Moskau. Im Sommer ist Sibirien nicht so kalt wie man es sich vorstellt, die Frauen tragen alle ...

... 1072;ми возни 82; больш 86;й очерч 77;нный красн 99;ми огням 80; огром 85;ый город - Пермь или Екате ...

... langs skinnene. I guideboka eg har staar det kva med passerar etter kor mange kilometer me er fraa moskva saa dette var ein interessant aktivitet. Me ankom Novosibirsk stasjon og hadde faatt vita av Milana, dattera til Arkady (som har jobba mykje med onkelen min Hans og ogsaa vore paa besoek hjaa oss paa Hella), at han Arkady kom for aa moeta oss paa perrongen. Det gjorde han ogsaa og hans blide vesen sjarmerte oss alle ...

... after a while and the long distances between everything get awfully tiring. Thing is, I kind of expected all this. I was well aware of the city's reputation long before coming, but for some reason I really wanted to hit it on my itinerary. Something about the name "Novosibirsk" and its curiously isolated spot on the map has attracted me for a long while, so I had to fit it in. I initially had the notion of spending the day here and then moving on to nearby Tomsk for the ...

... notes that reminded one of being in a downpour that doesn't end. A good, new song was called "Moskva" (Moscow). All the instruments eventually clashed together in the wonderful end, and Shevchuk - referring to the big-city noise - yelled, "Nichego neponimayu!" (I don't understand anything!) They played one of their many songs about autumn, and said that autumn has a "dozdlivoe serdtse" (rainy heart) and "tyomnaya dusha" (dark soul). Shevchuk played a song ...

... but it was delicious! After having lunch we spent the time looking through the window the last landscapes before arriving at the frontier. When we arrived at the frontier we could went out of the train during 2 hours. Our wagon was separated from the rest to check all the ...

... advance your watch and live by regular daylight hours instead. So what becomes of the start and finish times in the restaurant car ? And what's the time gap to the international clock ? The railway line actually spans 8 time zones. Add into the mix the Russian alphabet and unlimited quantities of vodka and you'll see how the journey soon becomes a rolling state of permanent confusion. Next ; The Baikal , part 2