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 | tim_godfrey |  | Dosto-prima-chatyel-nosti... |  | Sunday stroll in the sun |
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Nice sunny day for a Wedding, and only about -12 Deg C. It's amazing how much warmer that feels than -20!
That evening we hit the local casino, watched the 6 nations rugby live (but we couldn't see a thing because their cable wasn't working so they streamed a picture off the net.) The Irish lost. It was weird being in a room full of Englsih speaking people we didn't know. Their's obviously a little Irish community here! Walking to the metro, we saw fire twirlers, the "Church on Spilt Blood", built on the spot where one of the tsars was murdered by terrorists and an ice sculpture of a bar (if you're going to do ice sculpture in Russia, make it about alcohol!) People were warming up their kopek coins and sticking them to the ice-stool.
Tim: I have been meaning to say since I arrived here that here there are new cars that look like 1963 (?) EH Holdens! They are the 'Volga 3110' just in case you want to order one. And it is not Volvo, I spelt it correctly, Volga (named after the river presumably). I got a reasonably good photo of one recently and I will upload it soon. If they were available in right-hand drive, I tell you what, I would buy one for sure!
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