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From Russia With Love - Part 2
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I've settled down into trainboard routine. Amazingly, I still find I can sleep easily on board. A few surprises; first of all, we get fed. This isn't necessarily a given on this route I understand, and most of the tourists and locals have bags of food for the trip. The food is actually OK, in a Russian kind of way, grilled chicken or fish with mash or pasta seems to be the order of the day, and I've also got quite hooked on sweet black Russian tea.
The train is religiously on time to every station, where everyone jumps off for a stretch and the locals are hawking food and beer and various touristy bits of crap. Sergei has come back to the cabin with a piece of dried fish, which thankfully doesn't stink.
The train is kept clean and our car and cabins are vacuumed and cleaned every day it seems. The loos are kept clean as well, although its pretty cramped in there and the best you can do is a standup 'pits 'n bits' wash and brushup. I'm not going to attempt to shave; the way the train is bouncing I'd probably cut my head off.
Later
Sergei & Vlada insisted I eat with them this evening, cheese, black bread, salami, boiled eggs and pickles, very nice it was too. I got the beers in (I found the dining car, and you can get bottles of beer for about 40 roubles - 80p).
As we head east you start to get this weird time effect. The train schedule stays permanently on Moscow time, but we've already crossed a couple of time zones, and of course evening arrives earlier and earlier with each passing day, but keeping track is kind of odd. In a way the sudden jarring jetlag of air travel is easier to deal with, or maybe its just that I'm more used to it.
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