Joy Mirage Kazan
1a Moskov'skaya ulitsa Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Privolzhsky, 420951, Russian Federation
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Birthday at a Bus Stop
... a poor show of charades I asked him if he had looked in his trackies pocket which whilst the carriage lady had gone to get the linen in the first place he had changed out of into his sleeping shorts. He checked them and guess what…his ticket. We crawled into our bunks just as the lady came back in, she crinkled every plastic bag she could find and made a massive song and dance about getting up to the top bunk. Eventually she settled and we could all go to sleep.
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First real russian city
... church to separate the alter from the rest of it.
Followed a few back streets from here to the Kremlin whose grounds were still open but whose museums werent. Certainly a lot bigger than the last one I visited and with a large mosque in the middle of it (guessing Tartan influence). Wandered around the different parts of the Kremlin for a while and made it up one of the towers for some views of the city. Also managed to make it into the Kremlins cathedral before it closed ...
Friggin freezing!
We had our first evening on the train last night. Apart from a slightly awkward hour waiting for the train with our driver who spoke no english and us who spoke no Russian....... Not sure why we got to the train station so early, everyone was saying about Moscow traffic being bad, which it wasn't for us, but even if it had we still would have been really early! But a little help from the translate app on the iPad and we realised he was going to stay to get us on the train ...
Poolhall junkies
... uraansa. Hypattiin Arthurin Lada Samaraan (joka kaynnistyi napinpainalluksella auton ulkopuolelta!) ja menimme syomaan tataarien perinneruokia paikallisten suosimaan kuppilaan Alsun toimiessa venajankielen tulkkinamme. Erittain maukasta oli ja niin taynna en ollut viela matkalla ollutkaan. Arthur tarjosi ruuan 733 ruplaa (21e). Seuraavana esittelypaikkana olikin Kazanin biljardipejaajien mekka. Paikka jossa tehdaan ammattilaisten kepit kasin. ...
Day 3 - Kazan
... s football, basketball and ice hockey champions.
After a stroll through town, also popping into St. Peter and Paul’s Cathedral, our stop in Kazan ended with a scenic boat trip accompanied by soaring terns on the mighty Volga River, which is as broad as a major lake here.
Between our first Russian shi (cabbage soup) for lunch and beef Stroganow for dinner we watched a documentary on the last Romanov Tsar Nicholas II ...



