... Train #44 - Tomck

10 Oktober 2008: Traino #44 gia Novosibirsk (poli tis kainotomias & tehnologias tin epohi tou psihrou polemou) … Wagon lit once again, krevati pano-kato this time … tavli sta 11 oi partides … sigatoikoi sto 2.5x3 coupe, o Igor o paidiatros-anaisthisiologos & I “grammateas” tou simfona me ta erga tou Dima (sinehizi na grafi o idios …) I wra pernaei grigora akougontas tous teleytaious rwssous pou mpekropinoun. Kati kseroun k autoi, eipe o Kolya anoigontas to diafano mpoukali mias soviet votkas pou pirame apo ena kiosk stin teleytaia mas stasi..
O giatros xamolelaei tin stigmi pou xtypaei to rwssiko kinito mas einai I mama tou kolya.. Anoigei to laptop sta grigora k pliktrologei kati sto Russian-english lexicon. Mas grafei ‘’mama’’ kai mas eksigei mama einai I emotional experience.. Skybei pali panw apo to laptop tou k emeis afinoume auto to diafano apostagma na mas taksidepsei pio makrya..
Prwino sto trapezaki tou wagon k emaste pleon etoimoi gia afiksi sto Novosibirsk, Sabbato prwi pleon. Sta grigora epibbasi sto 1212 autobus gia ton kentriko stathmo opou me busaki tha pame sto Tomsk, kamia 300 km boriaanatolika. Prwto sok, odigoun k aristerotimona k dexiotimona stous idious dromous me apisteuti eukolia k sbeltada..Gyrame pisw k kleisame ta matia.
Siberia k 20 C gia prwti geysi sto foititiko Tomsk, famous gia ta ksilina spitia tou k ton proxwrimeno kosmo tou. Menoume sto spiti tis landlady Nadia, aplo, lito, alla simpathitiko me view se backgarden & eripomena parapigmata. Tyxainei simera (vl. htes) na einai kati san ethniki giorti edw, ordes kosmou sti ulitsa Lenina les k einai Prwtoxronia.. Mpainoume se sushi, pectopan na min ksexniomaste, gia tin epomeni wra k xwris polla polla kateythinomaste pros to spiti..trwgetai gia eksw o kolya k telika teleiwnoume me irish Guiness se pub tis perioxis ….
Teleytaia mera sto Tomsk,o ydrargyros ksafnou stous 3 C k etoimazomaste gia ayriano trip to Irkutsk. Net disevreto pleon, opote ta posts ligostevoun … kalo fthinoporo sto Ellanta …

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K & D

... transib train experience - Yekaterinburg

… lipon, ihame mini last day in Moscow. Afierothike stin koultoura k pali :P Pushkin state museum, fine & modern art ipotithete, alla ta pio modern itan 19 & 20 os aionas European & American art. Simplirothike diladi oti den ihame di sto Leningrad. Aigiptiaka, ellinoromaika & ellinistika, ehoume polles pix na dite soon … sinehisame voltes sta periks k pesame se kirile sinoikia Rossiki, mono megala jeep edo & european akriva cars. Fagame lita se pubia giati ola ta ypoloipa ine panakriva. Thelis toulahiston 50 afro ekastos gia na pis oti efages & ipies ena potiraki krasi … kourasmenoi epistrofi home & proetoimasia gia to big trip. Noris to proi ksekinisame gia stathmo, giati to metro mathame pleon poso hronovoro ine …
Wagon No.10: klinimaksa style diki mas, apla tetraklini. Sigatoikoi mia mitera me ti mikri tis (itoi 14, me cosmopolitan agalia). I mana gri agglika, adallaksame liges kouventes se 28 ores trip. Vrohi mera nihta, stathmoi me ntopious na poulan tis pramaties tous, thelis krystalla & gyalika (poli Vekuva), frouta (poli kalathi & babouskes, ginekes ntopies, na trehoun apo vagoni se vagoni, mpirakia & tiganita (aidia itan) … Orees ikones entos k ektos wagon lit, perimename na piasoume Kazan na doume tin protevousa ton Tataron. Ihe pai idi 2 to vradi, sto diadromo nekra apo tis 11 … en telei vrehi karekles k kathomaste ektos trenou molis 2 lepta. Tzifos akoma k i anamoni anamesa sta vagonia ….
Arrivaroume Ekaterinburg to apogevma, meta apo poli skaki, tavli, diavasma vivliou, mpiraki & sandwichaki. Mas ypodehete sto stathmo I Natalia (Couchsurfer pou tha mas filoksenisi). Arketa taksidemeni milai agglika k elahista ellinika. Dinner me kati files tis se oukrano-rossiko restaurant (borsh ciupy) & poli kouventoloi. Logo koinis glossas epikinoinias analysame k politico-koinonika themata … ton Putin ton goustaroun telika edo. Epidi tous dini lene mia efkeria na doun kati allo, na katanalosoun, alla den mporis na tous katigorisis mias k esi ta ehis idi gefti afta. Oute na tous pis an aksizoun I ohi k se pio vathmo. An den dokimasoun apo monoi tous den prokite na katalavoun. To thema ine pos simfonoun k oi idioi oti to timima ine pos ligoi tha akolouthisoun to rythmo tis neas Rossias k opios mini piso ton efage marmanga. To riskaroun!
… Ekaterinoupoli I poli tou Lenin mallon, edo dolofonisan tsaro Nikolao II me oli tin oikogenia oi Bolsevikoi gia na tous ksefortothoun mia gia panta, horis diadohous etc etc. Pano sti Lenina street k eki pou kanoume mini volta perpatontas, akoume kati mpam k mpoum (tainia leo tha girizoun) & molis girname ine mia mertsenta mavri 500ara na spiniari gazonontas k apo piso 2 Lada me 8 typakia me pistolia sta heria k akoma na rihnoun. Poli cool mporoume na poume oti imastan gia kati tetio, gia molis sta 15 metra apo emas. Skeftomastan isos oti oi krotoi itan apo pseftikes sfaires & halllara sinehizoume. Meta apo 500 m. mpatsoi ehoun olous tous emplekonenous stamatimenous. Ta typakia apo ta Lada itan ola pitsirikia, under 20, oi misoi baglaromenoi k I mertsenta me skasmeno lastiho, k lekedes sto aleksisfero tzami …. Resume. Yparhi mafia edo, den ine psemata re …