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Wonderful forests of Siberia
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Meals on the Rossiya train
Waking up in a foggy forest
After a good night’s sleep we wake up to find we are in a
forest surrounded by fog. It’s quite magical. We try
to clean ourselves up and attempt breakfast. We drag
out our dry bread, spread it with peanut butter and top it
with slices of tomato that we bought from the Babushkas last
night.
We hop off at a station stop but sadly there aren’t any
Babushkas selling anything at all. My throat is still
quite sore but then Ian produces our bag of Minties and one
of those makes me feel a lot brighter.
We’ve decided now that we won’t lock our compartment each
time for these little stops. It’s too much hassle for the
Provodnitzas. We have our money belts with our
passports and documentation strapped to us but that is all.
We now leave the lap top in the compartment and cover it
with a towel and then simply shut the door.
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| Magical forest scenery |
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We saw every shade of green under the sun |
With a great deal of discussion and wonderment, we have
changed the time on my watch to local time – well we think
it is now saying local time. Ian’s watch is set for Moscow
time (so we can be sure we always know when trains are
departing and arriving). The lap top is still set for
Bunbury time.
Whilst I was just in the loo Ian has bought us some treats
from the Provodnitza who was plying the corridor with a tray
of interesting edibles. We have some savoury biscuits that
look a bit like Sao’s but have a faint garlic flavour and
also a couple of chocolate bars.Toilets in the First
Class (Luxe) carriages
For someone who is normally a constipated person I find
myself frequenting the toilet fairly often. Maybe there is
something in the water in the Samovar. We drink enough of
it. I’m genuinely pleased with the toilets in our
carriage. They are invariably clean. The Provodnitzas clean
them frequently. I’m not so sure they will be so crash
hot in the lower grade sections on the train. Here in First
Class there are less people per carriage than in Second
Class or Platskartny Class, so each loo is getting used less
frequently.
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| We saw lots of army vehicles on
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Our first sighting of snow |
Large dogs wander around stations
Something comes to mind – we frequently
see unaccompanied dogs lurking around the place. They are
invariably very large dogs. They don’t appear vicious.
They are often skulking around railway stations right up
next to the platforms and the rail tracks. We saw a lot of
free-roaming dogs in Vladivostok too.
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| Rossiya at a station |
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Lurking dogs at stations |
Lunch time is looming. All we seem to do is eat.
Who could help it with so many different Russian foods to
try.
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Our last few hours on the Rossiya
Our trip in the order it all happened:
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