Yekaterinburg – unexpected visit of an ice rink :)
July 3rd 2011 Kazan to Yekaterinburg – my first train ride during the day! I wanted to cross the Urals by daylight – well, turns the highest “mountain’’ in the Urals is about 1’800m above sea level 😊 Nevertheless the ride was beautiful! I was in a platskartny wagon as usual – this means a wagon with many open compartments, in each of them there are six sleeping spaces. So those 5 other peo
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