Into the Russian Golden Ring

Trip Start Sep 13, 1997
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Trip End Oct 02, 1997


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Thursday, September 18, 1997

After passing several canal locks , we entered Volga River from Moscow Canal and approached our first destination after Moscow, Uglich. But before that, there are a lot of activities on-board (not by the standard of Caribbean cruise): there are lecture series about "Russian Politics", "Russian language lesson, No. 1" (just like teaching A,B,C), "Lecture about how to buy Russian art"....By the way, I attended all of them. We had some interesting things for lunch, very Russian one: beet soup and beef stew in a fancy pot (that pot came out at least six times later in the trip).

Even it's spartan (in Chinese, Young-Chung), I think I like it...

The boat didn't arrive at Uglich until 3:30 pm after it passed more locks. Our walking tour of that town lasted for only about 1 and ?hours. More onion-domed churches and icons of saint people we saw. We returned to the boat after 6:00 pm, the dinner entree are stuffed cabbage and Chicken Kiev (drooling, drooling...)

They don't translate it into "stuffed cabbage" as in the U.S., so I didn't even know what I had ordered until it was on my table. What a nice surprise! But my mother doesn't like Chicken Kiev.....We also bought a Russian dolls from street vendors on our way back.....
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