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Suzdal, Ek-Burg en de Oeral bergen
... in provinciestadje Vladimir eindelijk ons eerste echt grote etappe op de Trans-Sib: 20 uur aanéén in de trein. Echt wel bijzonder om dat zo mee te maken. Zo traag door het enorme Rusland te gaan en het landschap aan je voorbij te zien gaan. Veel bos en later wat meer heuvelachtig met zo nu en dan een klein dorpje. De provodnitsa (trein mevrouwtje) was geloof ik niet al te blij met ons en gilde `touristes oh no´, maar vertelde daarna met een paar ...
Day 3 on The Trans Siberian
... shirts off and gave each of them a head and shoulder massage. Vampire had all sorts of vine tattoos on his back. Vasili asked to see my photos from Beijing and Ulan Bator so I showed them. He showed me a photo of his kids, aged 11, 9 and 2.5. He also asked if I had Malaysian music but I didn't have any. All communication was in broken Russian but we got through. I think my Russian is getting better. So I figure Vampire's pname ...
A different look
... have come for meetings here. The streets are nice and wide, with no high rise buildings, making for a nice change of scene. The city is near the border of Europe and Asia, we will go and visit the point before we leave. We had a city tour after we had dropped our stuff off at the hotel, thankfully this one was in the car rather than running around on foot. Visited the university, which was pretty impressive and where Boris Yeltzin had studied. We saw the old town, where the city ...
Yekateringburg
... Ural Bank" it was a miracle that we found it at all.
Incidental to call it a hostel was a little bit of a joke - It was basically a flat on the ninth floor of a council estate (117 stairs up - no fun with our backpacks!!!) run by a gay couple who made very little effort to hide the fact that we were invading their space.
We spent very little time in the flat and wandered around Yekaterinburg - ...
Yekaterinburg
... asked if there was internet....at which the bar owner produced an eeepc and set it up for us to use! I wonder how many customers the internet cafe loses to the bar! However the bar was really cosy and we went back later – beanbags, low lights, definitely a good place to hang out. It was just a shame we had to catch the train later, else we’d have been there until the early hours!!! We even met a russian translator who used to work in Mt Isa!
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