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Transsib to Yekaterinburg
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Our next stage
We are now preparing to head off for our second leg on the Transsiberian railway tomorrow: the 35 hour and 2.287 km long train ride from Yekaterinburg to Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarsk is much smaller than Yekaterinburg and will be very interesting.
Besides getting accustomed to my luggage and the travel I am also making fairly good progress with my knowledge of the cyrilic alphabet :-). Let's see if I can keep up learning it.
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MonuMENTAL Russia
... The interesting thing is that this is probably the youngest person we have spoken to about Russia's political situation and we have found that a lot of the views seem to vary between the generations.
Those that were alive during the Soviet era seem to favour keeping things the way they are or even returning to more socialist policies, however the younger generation seem to desire change. The generation X-ers seem to ...
Trans-Siberian moves slowly to Ekaterinburg
... 8217;s during the journey remained unopened.
Sergey got off at midnight and we hoped that we might get the cabin to ourselves for the remainder of the journey. Donna popped off the train to take some more photos, leaving me to try and force some of our luggage underneath the seat in the storage compartment, at which point a gentleman the size of a house decided he was coming in with his mate, both of which were very Russian and once it ...
Favourite place in Russia - capital of Urals
... Manchester United, Abramovich and "dusche". Incredible rules, most of which they ignore in the end, when I pretend not to / don’t understand them. Registered by a doctor, shoes and coat here, valuables there, swim only in lanes. Followed to the pool by the Doctor! 30 times he says “dusche” – evidently before swimming. Yes. General idea!!!
As for Russian – next time I’d give it a go, ...
Dog sledding
... a major police officer...) they left, to much amusement to us! This morning we went to visit the point where Europe meets Asia. After a fresh dusting of snow last night the actual line that signifies the divide needed a bit of finding but we took the obligatory photos with one foot in Asia and one in Europe, then headed off into the forest for our dog sledding adventure. It was great fun, in the middle of ...