Saratov, Russia

... ponds, more hilly and interesting than Eastern Europe. The houses are very simple, mud roads, few or very old cars, this is rural Russia. We cross the Kazakh border on May 1st, by which time everybody in the train knows me as the "Francouss" and the ...

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... feel like a little princess, maybe the cleanest, most pink, well fed, and vodka saturated princess ever to find herself in Russia. Outside husbands wait. They smile, kiss thier happy wives, pour vodka into plastic cups, and we drink a round in the ...

... more of its features, to drink at the golden veins of its culture. Life is too short for all the things I want to learn. Saratov is certainly golden. It has Albina, a golden lady if ever there was one. It has the Volga river, a queen among rivers, ...