G – Reporting
Woke to more rain but at least it was fairly light so made some warming porridge (see living the high life on the road!) and then set of for lake Teletskoe were we planned to spend a few nights before heading to Barnaul, The rain kept coming and for the whole 250Km to the lake returning with vengeance when we got there, so one look at the muddy camp site and we decided to get a room for the night.
We found what looked like a likely candidate and went in and in my best bad Russian asked for a room the woman looked a little puzzled and then spoke English, said the room was 1500 rubles not bad we thought and then she added each hmmm 3000 not so good but we took a look anyway and it was nice and it did have a hot shower and it was pouring with rain outside so we said yes, so we went over to the restaurant to pay for some reason and she mentioned almost as an afterthought that dinner was included in the price something most people would have mentioned upfront but hey-ho this is Russia!
The actual room was in a huge log cabin type building surround by pine forest next to a lake all very Canadian and when I flicked on the TV there was even hockey it all made me feel a bit homesick! So we settled in and then went had our included dinner which was salad, pasta with meat and a sort of sponge cake not bad and nice not to have to cook, we then retired to our nice dry and warm room for the night.
Woke to more rain but at least it was fairly light so made some warming porridge (see living the high life on the road!) and then set of for lake Teletskoe were we planned to spend a few nights before heading to Barnaul, The rain kept coming and for the whole 250Km to the lake returning with vengeance when we got there, so one look at the muddy camp site and we decided to get a room for the night.
We found what looked like a likely candidate and went in and in my best bad Russian asked for a room the woman looked a little puzzled and then spoke English, said the room was 1500 rubles not bad we thought and then she added each hmmm 3000 not so good but we took a look anyway and it was nice and it did have a hot shower and it was pouring with rain outside so we said yes, so we went over to the restaurant to pay for some reason and she mentioned almost as an afterthought that dinner was included in the price something most people would have mentioned upfront but hey-ho this is Russia!
The actual room was in a huge log cabin type building surround by pine forest next to a lake all very Canadian and when I flicked on the TV there was even hockey it all made me feel a bit homesick! So we settled in and then went had our included dinner which was salad, pasta with meat and a sort of sponge cake not bad and nice not to have to cook, we then retired to our nice dry and warm room for the night.
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| Random roadside straw creatures! |
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| Can you guess who it is |
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| Rainy |
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