5000 km later: At the sacred lake in Siberia
October 16th 2007 I was met on Saturday morning - 7 am Siberian time, 2 am Moscow time, which I was still on - by Valera, my host in Siberia. As luck, or serendipity, would have it, he offered to take me straight to Lake Baikal, the sacred lake about 70 km from Irkutsk. He said he had an apartment there also, about 100 m from the lake, with a view to it from the bedroom window - would I prefer that instead? What a
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