Day #27: Yekaterinburg

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A short day today, as we caught the late-afternoon train on to Novosibirsk (a journey that would take the best part of 24 hours). No time to embark on a significant day of activities, so we went for a walk around Yekaterinburg's central lake. It is surrounded by roads and buildings and practically no greenery, so feels very manmade and Soviet, and lacking in any atmosphere, especially on a quiet, cold, dull Sunday morning. There were few people about, but we did see a man walking backwards over a significant distance. No idea why, we wondered if it was some kind of new age, meditational thing (he seemed otherwise sane).

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