Day: 16 July 2007
Trans Siberian Railway
Across the Plains of Siberia
We were awake at 7.30 am this morning and we were at this location: Current Location map This total trip from Vladivostok to Moscow is 9259 km and as I write this (20 hours after our commencement) we still have 8143 kms to travel. Our train has one very large and strong looking Russian electric […]
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Trans Siberian Railway
Provodnitsa Paradise
The Provodnitsa on a Russian train is a carriage attendant. Ours is a woman of about 40 with short bleached blonde hair and of a rubinesque appearance. She looks after the carriage and its passengers very well. Her job is to clean the train twice each day – sweep floors, clean windows, hose out the […]
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