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Fri, 23 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 12


last day in mother russia land. so we went to moscow's kremlin
once more, to also see the enclosed part[01-49], which of course
requires to pay some entrance fee. inside there were only a few
people, which we really enjoyed. 

first thing you see when entering the inner kremlin is trinity
tower[01,48]. then we walked by the state kremlin palace[02],
the assumption cathedral[05-08], archangel's cathedral[09], the
annunciation cathedral[11], the twelve apostel's cathedral[12-
15,26], the armoury chamber and the backside of the kremlin pal-
ace[17-23].

 

standing in front of the tsar bell[28-29], that is world's lar-
gest bell (but it was never rung because it broke during a big
fire) was quite impressive, same with the tsar canon[33-38], one
of the largest canons ever made. finally a walk over ivan square
and cathedral square[39-47] led us to the exit again. i really
hope i got all those cathedrals here right, it might easily be i
mixed them up somehow - if so, i'm sorry. inside the cathedrals
no photography was allowed. too sad.

 

then we drove home, i packed my things and olga's uncle fetched
us and drove us to the airport, where olga's father is working.
he said we should come a little earlier, so he could show us the
new airport tower they were just building at the airport area.
so we climbed up and ended on the open roof of the tower. it was
very windy and cold, clouds were coming up along with rain. but
i enjoyed the view. unfortunately, no photography again (due to
airport security concerns). a final coffee at the airport and
then olga and her father left. it then began to snow. in the
end of april. what a contrast to the weather back in austria...

it was a really impressive trip to this fascinating, but also
strange country. i encountered nice people, wonderful land-
scapes, very impressive buildings, and weird bureaucracy.
thanks a lot to olga's and dima's family, and friends for
their hospitality, their willingness to spend some time with
me.

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Thu, 22 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 11


for today we planned a trip to gorky park. but before that
we started our day once more at costa coffee[01] the place we
already have been several times. they have good coffee, free
wifi and nice cakes and the like. via the metro[02-03] we got
to the bridge again to search for the geocache once more[05-
16], but besides a nice view we did not find anything at all. 

 

so, admittedly a little frustrated, we went on heading towards
gorky park[17-91]. there were almost no people there besides us,
and also most of the funpark attractions were under construc-
tion[27-28,33]. since olga and dimas like shooting (it seems),
they stopped at some shooting galleries[45-52] and had fun.

 

inside gorky park there's is another little park[55-91] full
with statues and monuments that were deconstructed. they were
then collected over time and brought there. so you can find
lenin busts right next to stalin busts. foreigners here have
to pay almost double the price than locals.

 

 

after our visit to gorky park we brought dimas to the railway
station since one of their cats got very ill. so he took the
train back to get some veterinarian help for the pet. i hope
the cat will be fine. olga is pretty worried about it too...

PS: it's lenin's birthday today.

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Wed, 21 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 10


day 10 was entirely dedicated to doing touristy stuff. of course
first thing to do was to go to the kremlin's red square[004-
020,075-102], to saint basil's cathedral[016-055], the gum de-
partment store[011,056-074], and some historical place[015]
where people were beheaded a few centuries ago, nowadays used by
people as a wishing well. unfortunately lenin's mausoleum[012]
was closed due to preparation[010,012-013,091] works for the 65th
anniversary of victory in WW2 celebration, and kremlin would
have been open for only one more hour, so we decided to come
back here on fridy, the day of my departure.

 

 

so we went by metro[103-108] to get to a park where we met with
two friends of dimas (although the second one, alexander, was a
bit late, so we met him after the walk through the park). on our
way to the park we came by the monument to the conquerors of
space[109-110,195] which also houses the memorial museum of cos-
monautics in the lower floors of the monument. the monument it-
self is 107 metres high and on top of it there's a rocket. the
park, called all-russia exhibition centre[112-194] (aka "VDNKh-
USSR") consists of many pavillions, loads of sculptures (inclu-
ding the quite famous one named "worker and kolkhoz woman"),
fountains, a ferris wheel, and many other stuff. since the area
of the park is bigger than monaco, we only had a look at some
places there like the propylaea[112-114,117,123] the central
pavilion[118,120-128], a fountain[129-135] dedicated to the
friendship of nations, a pavilion[136,143, dedicated to moscow,
ryazan, and tula regions, another pavilion[137,139,178] dedicated to
uzbek SSR, next to the ukrain pavilion[146-148,162-170], a pavilion[157]
dedicated to mechanization and a spaceship[149-155] and an
airplane[159-160] right next to it.

 

guess what, all this stuff is next to another pavilion[158],
namely one dedicated to cotton, which is next to a pavilion[179]
dedicated to karelia, which is located right beside the pavil-
ion[180] of armenia, which... we entered. puh. inside[181-184]
were a cafe, and some shops which were already closed.  

 

next we took a ride on "moscow-850"[185-193], a ferris wheel,
constructed for moscow's 850th anniversary back in 1997. it's
around 75 meters high and you get a good overview over the
exhibition park and moscow.

then we went to some sushi bar and had very delicious meal
there. alexander then offered to drive us around a bit, so i
could get a glimpse on moscow by night. of course i didn't
want to miss that chance. so we got on his car and drove to
kremlin[196-203] again. this time there were almost no people.
another thing alexander wanted to show me was a bridge[207]
where young couples put on locks. i have already seen several
of these locks on all kind of bridges, but this one was quite
impressive.  they put up iron trees[204-209] and all locks were
attached to those trees. next stop was another cathedral[210-
212], another bridge[213-215] (we thought there should be a
geocache, but we never found it. even when we returned there in
daylight, the next day. but there were construction works going
on, so maybe the cache was unaccessable). then we stopped at a
nice viewing platform[216] which gave an impressive view over
moscow.

 

last stop was a park that had clown statues[219-225] all over
the place. looks like it was founded by some clown enthusi-
ast[217].

 

unfortunately alexander had to get up the next morning early to
go to work. so we then stopped the tour. thanks very much for
this awesome and interesting tour through moscow, alexander!

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Tue, 20 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 09


not much happened today so no pics again. we got up early,
olga's mom drove us to the railway station of bryansk, we got on
the train, we stopped in sukhinichi, had a look at the toys they
were again selling at the station, played some multiplayer games
on three nintendo DSs, ate, drank, and got off six hours later
at around 15:30 in moscow. there we took the metro to get to a
station where we were fetched by olga's uncle by car and brought
back to the place i've already been on the first day. so far
i've only seen three metro stations in moscow, but most of them
(namely two) were very impressive.
there are a lot of security and police men, so i hope i can
somehow take pictures of them without running into troubles,
because they think i try to make plans for the next bomb attack
on moscow's metro.
since all of us were quite tired, and i'm still not fully
recovered yet (but feeling way better), we decided to not go
back to the city, but rather go to the shopping mall with the
IKEA, OBI, H&M, C&A, mango, esprit, and all the other
shops we have in shopping malls in austria too. untypically i
had american food today in a friday's restaurant. plain old
boring burger i had. no borscht, too sad. also i already miss
the cats, and i'm very curious about moscow by now.

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Mon, 19 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 08


i stayed home today, because i got a terrible cold, headache,
and a sore throat. so olga did some stitching, i was mostly
sleeping, surrounded by sleeping cats. only exciting thing that
happened today was the news of the first flight from russia to
vienna by aeroflot after the vulcano eruption in iceland. still
three days left, i hope things are back to normal then.

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Sun, 18 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 07


today was a strange day. firstly i woke up with a cold, headache
and a sore throat, secondly olga got bitten by one of her dogs
while they were fighting the neighbour's dogs. there was blood
all over her clothes. so we went back inside to have her change
clothes.
then we were walking through bryansk again, having a coffee[01],
and going to a market[02-03]. there they had all kind of stuff
like food, clothes, accessoires, and covers for mobile phones. i
bought one for mine. also, i saw two teenage girls sucking cock
in public there. but besides me and olga no one cared about that
it seemed. well, unfortunately i didn't take pictures of that,
but olga said she might do that one day, especially for me, so i
can take a picture of her while she will be sucking cock. the
only problem is to find those rooster- shaped lollipops
somewhere. they were all red and looked quite delicious -
nomnom.
after strolling around[04-13] for quite a long time, we took a
bus[14-16] back home to enjoy the presence of the cats[17-29].

 

we had some barbecue in the backyard of the house with olga, her
mother, her sister, her nephew and niece, dima, me, the dogs and
the cats. unfortunately i did not feel too well, so i went to
bed early and could not really enjoy the barbecue.

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Sat, 17 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 06


"what do you want to see in russia?" olga asked me when i said i
will visit her. i said i would be interested in abandoned stuff,
like houses, cities, villages, and such. and so today was the big
day for such things. but before leaving to those places, we had
to go to the doctor, because in the night dima and olga's mom
were keeping the dogs from killing a hedgehog, and dima was hurt
when trying to lift up the hedgehog, so we went to the doctor to
have him checked for rabies and having a vaccination if necessa-
ry. the doctor said if the dog, who also got injured by the
hedgehog, would still be alive in ten days, everything will be
fine with dimas. nice prospect.
afterwards we drove to the town where dima was born and his
family still lives, to see some abandoned villages. the first
place we visited was a memorial[005] for a burnt down vil- lage
during the second world war. several hundred people were killed
by german soldiers here.
next place was a small abandoned village[009-034]. actually it
was not abandoned entirely, because there was still one house
where an old couple was living. the old lady[025] showed me
around. she told olga that they lost almost all their bee
hives[027-028] due to too much snow. inside the house they had
several ovens for heating and cooking, and an old cat lying next
to one oven. in this village there was also a geocache[030]
hidden. there is a geocaching site for russia, that's why i did
not find any caches on geocaches.com, but geocaches.ru did the
trick. since those two sites are not really connected (in terms
of caches and users), i still have my traveling bug with me. i
hope i can get rid of it in moscow.

 

then we drove on to the next abandoned village[036-084]. we
found a place where someone was collecting juice from a
birch[075]. it's pretty common here and so birch juice is easy
to get here. it tasted like water with a little sugar in it.
after that we got to a holy spring[088-110]. they even built a
small hut there for people that want to take a bath in the holy
water. it is said that one gets young and good looking if they
wash their face with that water. so i did wash my face - maybe
it helps, we'll see. afterwards we had some sort of barbe-
cue[106- 107]. dima's father brought some lard[110] and bread.
quite tasty, and common (according to olga), but definitely not
my favourite every-day food.

 

last building we stopped by was an abandoned school[119-131].
people started to dig at the corners of the ruins, because ru-
mour has it that there should be some gold hidden (of course there
was none - i was looking myself).
then we stopped by at dima's parents to have dinner. we had some
chicken with salad, of course borscht, and a delicious cake for
dinner. all served with several rounds of vodka (yes, i ended up
slightly drunk this evening). on our way home we were listening
to scooter (because olga's mother likes it and thus had a CD in
the car), stopped at a super market to buy some food and at the
train station to buy our tickets for the train back to moscow on
tuesday.

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Fri, 16 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 05


today we planned to go to another part of bryansk. but first we
had to get back my piece of paper they kept the day before. the
lady in the office pointed at a box where quite a lot of papers
like mine where in. so as picky as they are when it comes to
bring everything and having filled out everything, as sloppy
they are when it comes to handing out back any forms or papers.
we could have just taken any pieces of paper, which for sure
would have ment loads of troubles for the people that would have
ended up without them. but of course we didn't.
we walked around a bit until we came to, what olga called it,
the suicide bridge of bryansk[008]. according to olga a lot of
people here commit suicide. 
next olga showed me an abandoned bridge[013-020]. though fully
functional it is not used by anyone. so no cars, just a few pe-
destrians and one woman on a bike were there. also i'd way more
prefer this bridge to commit suicide, if i'd ever decide to end
my life in this city.
next we walked to the university, a place where olga was working
once. there were so many girls, i totally forgot to take any
pictures (or actually i was so busy staring, i had no time to
take pictures). so olga draged me away from the main buildings
and showed me the area[024-072] around the university, again
with abandoned buildings[028-045], bridges[051-071] and huge
areas of swamp, wood, and meadows. on the bridge there were a
lot of locks. they are put up there by newly wed couples, and on
most of them there's something written on it.

 

on our way back we found an old, but still working public tele-
phon booth[078-080] (or... sort of booth). it still was beeping
when we lifted the receiver. later we met one of olga's neigh-
bours[082-085] and the girl asked me to take pictures of them.
after having a coffee break we went on to see another memori-
al[088-094] where people of bryansk were offered to help buil-
ding it. right next to the memorial is some amusement park[095-
098,114-116], an abandoned ski jump[099-113], and an abandoned
driving school[118-124]. the amusement park unfortunately was
closed.

 

on our way back home we hit rush-hour it seemed, so loads of
people[129-135] waiting for, and in the busses. notice that
about 90% of the girls here wear shoes with (very) high heels.
back home we had dinner. of course borscht, a soup called okro-
shka[139], and belmin[140-148], which we made ourselves. at
first we stuffed the dough ourselves, but then olga's mom came
up with some device[146] to speed up things a little bit. as
usual, very delicious.

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Thu, 15 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 04


fourth day in russia started out with dealing with russian
public authorities again. i have to be (re?)registered within
three working days, once i had entered the russian federation. i
think this is just to make sure that i really got fetched from
the airport by the person that is named in the visa, and that i
really still stay with them. so we went to some administrative
office to have the paper work done. they require a copy of my
passport, my visa and some paper that i was handed out when
waiting for the passport control on my first day here. the paper
was split into two parts, both requiring exactly the same
information to be filled out, namely again my name, the place
where i stay, the sequence number of my visa, when i arrive,
when i leave, etc... so all this information by now should be
registered at least a five, six times. but... yet they wanted
olga (of course the both of us had to be there personally) to
fill out all this again on two double-sided forms. the first
part of the paper i handed out to someone at the airport when i
came to russia, the second part i have to hand out when i will
leave. they say if i don't have the second part when leaving
russia, i might get into serious troubles. ok, so i just always
put it into my passport. i should be able to not lose this one.
the bad thing actually is, the lady at this office kept the se-
cond part. notice, she sent us away to get a copy of it, still
she keeps the original. so we have to go there tomorrow to get
it back. oh well...
after spending about one hour at this agency, we went to some
other part of bryansk. we got there by bus. they have two types
of busses here: small ones, that are actually vans that have
about ten seats in them and they drive quite fast. the other
type of bus is an ordinary one as i know them from austria. you
get on, have a seat and get off somewhere. in both of the busses
you pay as you get on. on the first one you hand over the money
to the driver, in the second one a lady is coming to you to
collect the money. no matter how far you go, be it one station
or 20, you always pay the same price, 12 rubels.

so we finally arrived at an historical place, namely another
first settlement found here. there was a graveyard again[01-06],
and hiking a little offroad, we got near to the flooded river[07-
25] of bryansk. after a while we got back to a road[26-34]
again, which we took to get back to o&d's office. there we
had what they call "business lunch". they offered "schnitzel"
there, but i had minced meat with smashed potatoes and of course
borscht[36] and some strange, but very tasty fruit-juice[35]. 
coffee was next[37].

after getting on a bus again we got to the monastery[38-52].
there was a mass, and i dared to enter a little (but not to the
room where the mass was taking place).

 

olga stayed outside, she had no clothes to cover her hair and
dress properly to enter the church[41-43]. next to the church is
a little "graveyard"[44-45] of dead monks and the house for the
highest monks[46,50]. the rest unfortunately was not open to
public[48]. behind the monastery there was a cool toilet[51],
and some stairs[54-59] leading to a small spring[60-61] where
one could take a bath. next our trail led us through a wood and
a swamp[62-86] to some meadow next to the river. finally we
arrived at the cemetary[87] again and took a bus to o&d's com-
again, where we had bryansk some beer.

 

then we went home and had blov, a dish made of rice, vegetables,
and meat. reminded me of risoto somehow.

today iceland's vulcano had a break out. aeroflot canceled all
flights from and to europe. if the volcanic ash cloud wont dis-
appeare within the next seven days, i'm in troubles. i guess.
i just don't want to deal with visa-issues and russian
authorities anymore...

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Wed, 14 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 03


today olga and me were strolling around in bryansk. the city
itself is rather split up, with loads of woods and swamps in
between. so we focused on the centre. first we went to a cher-
nobyl memorial[13-14], armenian's memorial[16-17], some public
school[19-21] where one can just walk through the backyard of
it, bokrovskaya mountain[34-40] the place where the first
settlement was (or at least the people believe so). next stop
was the obligatory "lenin" place[47]. every town has it, to-
gether with some lenin street and most of the time some lenin
statue. olga said at some time people wanted to remove the
statues, but then they decided that it's part of history, so
they just left all the names and statues as they are. next place
i was shown was a memorial[51-52] of soldiers that died during
the second world war.

 

next we arrived at the company of o&d[61-74]. they are pro-
ducing flash games for mobile phones, so there were some artists
and some coders, and two bosses. all of the staff was very
friendly and they gave me a warm welcome (i hope they were not
forced to do so by dimas or they would get fired).

 

last sight was tolstoy park[75-89] with wooden sculptures. olga
told me that once there was a park with very old and big trees.
but one day all of them got some strange disease and people
tried to save the trees, but they couldn't. so the trees had to
be cut down, and artists were encouraged to make some sculptures
out of the wood blocks. later we went to some little grocery
shop[90-91] and we bought some traditional russian icecream. it
tasted nice and was actually not very different from what we
have - surprise, surprise. 

 

it seems like russians don't go out for dinner or coffee. thus
there are only a few cafes in bryansk. poor me, i'm used to
sight seeing then having a coffee break here and there and then
going on. here i have to wait for quite a long time to get to a
cafe[92]. but once we found some we have some desert and cafe.
very nomnom, just like the rest of all the food i had tried so
far.
after coffee we went to olga's sister olesya and her kids. they
also gave me a warm and kind welcome. there i had caviar. later
dimas joined us, since he finished working and the company is
just around the corner of olesya's place. so we went home and
had once more a very delicious meal prepared by olga's mother.
this time she made buckwheat with chicken hearts and sour-cream
sauce. rather strange to me, but very tasty. nomnom. the rest of
the evening we spent playing some wii games and having fun.

PS: there are _no_ geocaches here in bryansk. too sad...

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Tue, 13 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 02


this day started off with a nice breakfast at "costa cafe"[03]
at the shopping mall we've already been to yesterday. the cafe
can be found right next to an "obi" store[02] there. for break-
fast i had a croissant with miscellaneous fruits[03]. then we
were brought to the "bryansk railway station"[05-15] in moscow
by olga's father and uncle to get our train to bryansk. the
station itself is very beautiful with loads of nice details and
a huge hall[09]. the train ride lastet six hours and there were
only two stops. russia is pretty vast, so going by train here
has some other meaning than going by train in austria. addition-
ally we had a sleeping compartment, so we took some naps[14]
during the journey. the second stop was in "sukhinichi". at the
platform there were sold loads of plush toys[15].

 

at the station in bryansk we were fetched by olga's mother that
drove us to my new home for the next few days. in the pretty big
house there are nine cats (maunz!) and three dogs (although they
have to stay outside). olga's mother also prepared some very
very delicious food like some pie[19] with meat and potatoe
filling, borscht (but without beetroot, since olga does not like
it it seems), and very nice halibut. afterwards we had some
japanese tee and nice cherry cake made by olga herself.

 

woah, so much eating, i'm not used to that any more after my
ireland trip...

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Mon, 12 Apr 2010

nostromo in mother russia land, day 01


since the day i decided to go to russia only olga and dima, the
people i stay with/at for the next few days, gave me a feeling
of being welcome to russia. russian authorities so far totally
did... not. applying for visa was a pita. at first, olga had to
send me an invitation, because you must be registered to some
place where you stay - be it a hotel or some private accommoda-
tion, as in my case. once this was done, i additionally had to
bring a travel insurance, so that russia can easily get rid of
me if i get sick on my journey. once you have all the stuff
(which means besides all the previously mentioned stuff, things
like a printed out request for the visa, two current pictures of
yourself and some other stuff and forms i already forgot about)
you can apply for a visa. in my case this means going to the
consulate in salzburg. the totally annoyed and unmotivated guy
behind a thick glas window then sent me away again with a post-
al money order, because they don't accept cash there. so, in
a foreign city you have to fulfill the quest of searching for
the nearest bank to pay the 35EUR for the visa request. notice,
this is all just for the request - no guarantee you visa will be
granted so far. i already have booked my flight, bought my
travel insurance and would have most likely already booked a
hotel, if i would be staying at one. funny thing is, the only
word the guy at the consolate said to me through the two-way
intercom was "no" when i asked if i could pay cash. the rest of
the "conversation" was pointing at some notes that were put up
somewhere in the room, or nodding or shaking his head.
but, as you can guess, the visa request was approved - yippieh,
lucky me! this also means i got my passport back again, after
ten days in which it was kept in the russian consulate. of
course i had to go to salburg again to fetch it.
the visa itself is a one-page entry sticked into my passport
with a nice awesome hologram. people here are totally into this
hologram-thingie it seems. besides the address where i stay it
also has a line that represents my name in russian letters, so
that people know how to pronounce my name - nice.
at the airport i pretty felt unwanted again, as all the people                  
that arrive at the airport are heading for passport control. but
there were only two counter windows, and one of them was for
diplomats only. so people were queueing up, me amongst them. it
took an average of two minutes for the lady at the check-point
for each person to check the visa and passport. although loads
of other staff people were frequently running around, no other
counter was opened. this way i spent one hour in a queue that
was slowly getting smaller. when i was the fourth in queue, the
lady at the counter decided to take a break now, leaving about
30 people waiting. finally it was decided by some other guy
there that we were allowed to queue up at the "russian citizens"
counter. this was speeding things up dramatically, because the
average time per person suddenly was around 30 seconds. two
lessons i got here: firstly, russians are never in a hurry,
secondly, i am convinced by now that they really do not like
visitors.
fortunately the warm welcome by olga and dima made me forget
about all these troubles pretty fast. we got fetched from the
airport by olga's uncle and drove to some flat pretty close to
moscow (though i really don't know how close it is to the center
or the city limits). first thing i got to see here was a mall
and an IKEA[10] (though the "I" was russianized to some strange
letter). the opening hours here are from 10:00 to 23:00 o'clock.
pretty cool. inside the mall were loads of shops you can find in
austria too, like H&M, C&A, esprit, salamander (the shoe shop),
MANGO, zara, and of course some McDonald's[03] (with some very,
very weird russianized spelling).

 

since olga and dima (from now on referred to as o&d) were hungry
we went to some uzbek restaurant called "kuschmusch"[09]. they
had stuff like mutton, sheep, lamb meat and other stuff i've
never heard of. so i was recommended some great soup with lamb
meat, vegetables, potatoes and fine herbs ("shurpa"), and some
dumplings with mutton meat and onions ("manty") as main dish. i
was also allowed to taste a little from o&d's meals ("dolma",
some rice mixed with meat, herbs and stuff wrapped into a grape-
leaf, and "chebureki", somE dough with meat filling). everything
tasted really nice - i now know that i would survive in uzbekis-
tan. at least when it comes to eating. after dinner we were
strolling around at the mall.  besides the shops, restaurants
(sushi and the like), a cinema, and cafes, there's also a big
ice rink[04]. but it seemed everyone was fed up with winter in
the meantime, so no one was skating. i was told the ice rink is
opened even in summer - i think this is great fun. afterwards we
went to a cafe[05-08] to have some exotic coffee (mine[08] was
with white chocolate and other stuff) and sweets[07].

 

at the flat[01-02] we had some tequilla (yop, no vodka - i was
surprised myself), some russian saussage, bread, and russian
chocolate (pretty dark one). so far, i think russia is a nice
place. a bit brownish, swampy, and vast - but maybe that's just
because i just came back from my ireland trip. so quite the
opposite to what i had seen in the last few days. tomorrow we
will go to bryansk by train. train tickets are registered to
your name again and - of course - have a hologram. the trip will
last for over six hours, and we share a compartment for four
people, so most likely there will be another person with us. oh,
and olga and me have to go to some police station(?) to have my
stay here confirmed (or so?). i think this is just to make sure
that i really stay with the person i named in the visa, and that
i got fetched by the person that will be responsible for me dur-
ing my stay here in russia. did i already mention that i some-
times do not feel welcome here?

btw, today russians celebrate the "cosmonaut day". from now on
it will also be known as "the day the starship has landed in
russia". well... at least for me.

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ireland, day 09


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ireland, day 08


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ireland, day 07


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