Tuesday afternoon, August 21. Hot again.
You may have wondered why I am sending so many blogs/pictures. For your information I never know when and where I may connect. And even then I do not know if my messages have gotten through. Crazy stuff the Internet while travelling, trust me on this statement.
The train came to a halt at exactly 10.07 AM in the station, just as scheduled.
We were on our little coach in minutes and toured this large city of 1,500,000 for a few hours. There was basically nothing to see of interest other than the river we just passed over is the geographical border between Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia. We are now in Eastern Siberia. What is the difference? Who knows, we may in a day or two but right now, after lunch, it just looks a bit more prosperous and the land looks remarkably like 100 Mile House in the interior of BC. Rolling slopes, fields of hay and sparse birch trees. Lovely in the afternoon sun.
This afternoon we have Vodka Tasting before dinner after a radio lecture on Gulags. Clocks forward an hour tonight which means we are on Beijing time even though we do not get there for another week!
Tomorrow night we are scheduled to spend a night in a Hotel in Irkutsk.
Early coffee in Car 5, cabin 1.
Passing settlement outside the window at 60 KMH.
Another little cluster in the bush.
My much younger wife at an overlook of the river Jenise, separating east and west Siberia,
flowing north to the Arctic Ocean.
Monument at the overlook to the fish The Sturgeon.
Lynn and Joe at the shop awaiting the bus back to the train at the end of our short stop.
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