35 hours on a train!! And that's not even the longest journey! It was amazing though and we made some great train friends 👍🏼.
Firstly though as we have no wifi on the train, an update from the end of Yekaterinburg. This is Eva wearing a stylish headscarf and skirt to cover her modesty in monastery built where the Romanov's bodies were thrown down a mine shaft to hide them after their murders.
The buildings were all made in a traditional way, out of wood.
They were really impressive.
And we saw a cat, which is also a bonus!
After this we had heard about a Russian gangster graveyard, as the city had a family war in the 90's. So naturally we had to see what it was all about. We did feel a bit weird taking pictures but we were respectful/didn't let anyone see.
After this revelation into grave stone design, we prepared ourselves for the journey ahead...with some powdered potato and chicken in a tub....interesting.
Then we started our journey, this is us in our little cabin!
We got on the train late the first night so we pretty much went straight to sleep, obviously the potato in a tub had filled us up and we were sleepy!!??
The next day and night we met some great people, shared our stories of our travels so far and then got down to what every good traveller does...try to copy the locals.
Our views and stops on the train went something like this...
And as I said previously, for this leg of the journey at least, the people we met made it for us. So unexpected and we will always take pleasure in kindness from strangers. Thanks to everyone we spoke to on the train and we use the term 'speak to' loosely.
Judith, Hubert, Ciara, the Russian Soldier and of course Eva and I enjoying some of Russia's finest.
With a special thanks to this guy, Eugene, who managed to run the job of translation and hospitality in the train almost single handedly although he was a passenger himself!!
