| Our train departed Moscow at 00:28am on Tuesday 28th December. |
| As usual, the timetable for our journey was available on the wall at the front of the carriage. This outlined the times and durations for each of our stops along the way, the longer ones being valued opportunities to get out and get some exercise, or buy some supplies from the numerous vendors that ply their trade on the platforms. |
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| At 12:39 we had had some rest, and Sasha was examining the map that Lena and I had bought the previous day. |
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There was plenty of snowy winter scenery outside, but the results I got
trying to take pictures through the grubby windows really didn't do it
justice.
This picture was taken at 12:46, between Volkovstroi-1 and Lodyoinoye Polye. |
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At 13:30 Lena and Sasha during our 20 minute stop at Lodyoinoye Polye,
a little behind schedule according to the timetable as we should have
been leaving at this point.
Between them to the rear you can see a typical platform entrepreneur plying her wares to the passengers. |
| Sasha and me still on the platform at 13:39. |
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At 16:32 during out 20 minute stop at Petrozavodsk on Tuesday afternoon.
At this time it was already getting dark, producing a very Christmas like
scene, with the tree lights and real snow.
We were evidently a little behind schedule as we were supposed to have left here at 16:24. |
| Standing in front of an old Soviet train at 16:38, and it is already a bit too dark to see me. |
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| Another shot with a flash, so you can see me but not much of the background. |
| Lena and Masha at 19:46, in front of the picturesque station house during our 30 minute stop at Medvezhya Gora. |
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| A bit closer so that you can see Lena and Masha, but now you can't really see the station house.. |
| about a minute later they have spotted a mound of snow to play in... |
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| Lena and Masha frolicking in the snow. |
| I think this was one of Masha's moon pictures. |
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Later that day, after catching up on a little sleep, we are
invited to Sasha's house for a shower, as she had the luxury of
indoor washing facilities.
Here, at 13:00, Sasha is leading us to the bus stop for the short ride to her place. |
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A little later, freshly washed and being treated to Sasha's hospitality.
This picture was taken with the timer, which is the reason for the artefact from the surface the camera was balanced on visible at the bottom of the image. |
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