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1 day in Yekaterinburg
... of Yakov Sverdlov on the way to the tourist guide centre, of which we failed to find. We ended up going to the Ural Hotel where the receptionist could speak some English and helped us to call the tourist information centre for a taxi to the Europe-Asia boundary monument 17km west of Yekaterinburg. The taxi driver could not locate the monument at first and drove us to somewhere at least 40km away from the city. We only noticed the monument when he drove almost all the way ...
The Train II
Our train trip to Ykateringburg has been pretty spectacular and surprisingly comfortable. We lucked out and were put on a newer train and were even luckier to share our carriage with a cool dude from Ykateringburg called Anton. Like most people we've met so far, he starts out by saying "My English is terrible..." and then speaks far more proper English than either of us (is this even a sentence...?). Like the other Russians ...
Banya
... we organised to go to one outside of Ekaterinberg to see what all the hype was about. We had 2 hours in a sauna house with a bucket outside the sauna room full of freezing cold water (well it's -25 outside...). It was an interesting experience, the sauna you could control yourself so most of the time wasn't that hot, until you threw three spoons of water on the ...
Better be prepared
... But it was just for one night. We thought so! We haven’t seen it until we got through our daily planning and figured out which day we have right now and that our trains goes one day later than we thought! What now??? Expensive Hotel for another night or try couch surfing again. As we looked through the homepage we found this nice family. And now it was how I expected couch surfing should ...
Yekaterinburg
Another early arrival, but loads of people got on and off the train so felt quite civilised despite being 6.30am! This was just a day stop – arrive 6.30am, leave again at 11pm so we left our bags at left luggage and headed out. But it was much colder here, so having walked into town and past the Romanov church and the ice statues, we couldnt wait to find a cafe to warm up in! (and wait for the light to appear!) Luckily we found one!
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