Ekaterinburg
Trip Start
Jul 07, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 01, 2008
Yekaterinburg,
Urals,
Russian Federation
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Our guide in Ekateringburg told us that there were two reasons that the city was in the Guiness Book of Records:
1. They consume the most mayonaise per capita of anywhere on earth
2. They had the longest running screening of the movie "Titanic" of anywhere in the world, with 5 months!
Don't know if it's true but that's what he said...
A long way to anywhere.
This town is really all about the Romanovs, the family of the last Tsar was assasinated by the Red Army in 1918. There is a newly constructed soon to be Cathedral (when the Archbishop moves house to the house next door it will be a Cathedral) and a newly built monastery on the site where the Romanovs were assasinated, a little way out of town.
At the time we were there it was the commemoration of 90 years since the Romanovs died and there were thousands of pilgrims who had flocked to both places to pay their respects to the family who have now been made saints and are viewed as martyrs for the church.
Ekateringburg is quite a nice compact city, with a large pond in the centre which was nice to stroll beside and the many bars made the perfect pitstops on the hot afternoons.
From Ekateringburg it is a short trip also to the Europe Asia border, which is marked beside the main highway. Of course the photo was obligatory!
