Saturday 19th September 2010
Finally, found another free wifi location and although we have to endure what is possibly the worst attempt at italian cuisine that I have ever seen at least we can update this for a change!
Well what can I say about Russia, the Mullet has just come into fashion, especially for the women who seem to be sporting it with wreckless abandon. Its been a good experience thus far though, we still have all of our limbs (just), we have only had 1 casualty (tylers camera, 1st day, 20 flights of stairs) and we havent been mugged yet (although I am sure we have had a couple of close calls).
To be honest everyone in Russia has been really friendly, there are more good looking women per capita than anywhere else in the world although with my 10 day facial hair growth most of them give us a very wide birth, preferring to jump into oncoming traffic than to be seen near me. We are still adapting to the wonderful world of Russian "Home stay" which basically consists of sleeping in whatever spare room a family has available, we have been lucky so far and have had 1 x dining room and 1 x bedroom, however its just a matter of time before we kip in a shower cubicle im sure!
Most of the people we have run into have spoken little English, so we are in good company :-) The age old point, shout, point again and shout a bit louder guide to foreign correspondance has come in really useful and has only landed us in strife a couple of times!
We have the wonderful prospect of heading to "Perm" tomorrow, a town so bad that they named it after a hairstyle that nobody here has, in fact it has a single solitary line in our guidebook advising us that the most interesting place is 100km outside of the city! Yipee . Perhaps they should consider renaming it "Mullet" to attract more visitors?
Anyway, Tyler is once again kicking me off the laptop to play games! Enjoy and hopefully we will have a chance to update this again soon.
Darren
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