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Published: September 10th 2008
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As in the previous post I’m writing not in the place I am writing about, I’m now in Ulan Ude (see map) and so most of this is my journal edited…tripped out a little in this space and time so please expect stories that have been markedly marked with crayons…
Thursday 07/08/08
So as you can see from the previous pic (Note: I’m talking to myself here and about the Lake Baikal sketch that is on the previous page - see pics when I can upload) I am at Lake Baikal and have only now written…why? Maybe I have too much to say - my mind here has been so alive that I’ve really had no opportunity to sit down, stop thinking and write - the reason now really is to chart this glorious time but I guess my thinking for now has dissipated a little too. Plus it’s been raining like the clappers all day today so not much to do.
So in fact my first couple of days were of little notary but since then the senses have not stopped devouring - Masha is the main reason
- yet again on my travels I was blessed with a meeting of goodness - her step-dad sorted me with a place to stay (300 Rubles a night) and they both treated me as if family (Note: after writing this I met her Mum too and she was the same, Eric there son was a gem too) it seemed to me. The bike ride was the highlight (see pics), but the friendship was the most precious thing, they cooked some great camp food and took me on a nice rowboat trip too. Be good to see them again in Irkutsk (Note: stayed with them a night there after I wrote this and again it was as if I was family).
Today it’s been wet all day (rain), but met nice Zimbabwean/English and French CS couple (Note: seen them since in Mongolia), hope it clears tomorrow as want to sketch more. Oh yes remember now why I wanted to write - the mist on the lake was great at dusk with a hint of sunlight through the cloud (wanted to sketch but didn’t have book) - it gave the lake a real eerie look - oh mystical mist…
09/08/08
Saturday
So somehow, I, in the end, per chanced on a dolphin suit - an ex-soviet one from the 60’s I think, if my knowledge of soviet suits is right that is. So yes the story goes; in the end after an exhaustive search of St Petersburg and Moscow I came across it scrumpled in the corner of the kitchen on the trans-Siberian train, in the freezer of all places!!! I was enraptured in pleasure of the find and dreamt of mermaids for some time after…
I have since been testing it in Lake Baikal and almost reached the bottom of said lake (1647m down to its very depth) but alas I only saw the bottom, about 150m off it by my reckoning. I saw a magpie in one of those mini shark suits and an elephant in a water dragon suit down there too. At first, I was naturally scared to shivers of these apparitions but then we sat down for afternoon tea in these depthly depths and became best friends…I also crossed the width of the lake in said suit, I ate a hamster packed lunch on this trip - not the actual hamster but the stuff
it had stored in his cheeks you see - it was really packed.
10/08/08 Sunday
Listening to a Yann Tierson soundtrack waiting for the circum-Baikal train, I think I saw Big super Alio on the disused steam engine playing a trumpet with hyper-tension, and a cute French girl I once really knew; and all else for three instants seemed illusionary and I cried. But alas, then in the midst of the mist a procession formed of everyone I’d ever made eye contact with, each with an instrument in hand. They all made a marvellous never-ending marching band…But then it ended!!!
So that’s all you get for now of my interloping mind on my travels, the world is not ready for the rest just yet, another blog disasterpiece for your perusal if any of you are out there…please feel free to comment of course…Note: I finished writing this in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia in the end so sorry if the time frames have confused you when I referenced my time in Mongolia. Writing the Mongolia entry now so soon I’ll be all up to date and time will no longer play like the devil did to Mary…
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