06.06

Well, our first longer stop (~5 min) was in a town X. Actually it must be a city because this train doesn’t stop in small towns. We went out of the train and met some local businessmen who were selling everything a train passenger could need. An old woman sold chicken (100 Rub) and cutlets. The smell of this food was exactly how it supposed to be. It was at 12 o’clock and we just finished our breakfast. So we were hoping to get some babushka cooked chicken from the next stop at 15 o’clock in Kirov. We were quite disappointed by the fact, that at this train station people were selling stuff we didn’t need. For example toys stuffed animals. Chicken selling babushkas were on this train station forbidden. I think they have there a local mafia who controls the trade on the station. We bought some ”Doshirak” noodles and were waiting for the next longer stop at 19.

At 19 o’clock we stopped and there were again a lot of people selling goods, mostly alcohol and some food, sunflower seeds, vegetables etc. Since we really wanted to eat chicken we looked in every babushka’s basket and found one who sold chicken with potatoes and we bought a bottle of water as well. After some minutes we sat back in our coupe having dinner. To be honest the chicken didn’t taste good, but at least we ate some of it – we had to because our neighbour would have looked really strange at us. Our dinner was a great picnic. As dessert we got a chocolate cake from our neighbour. Afterwards we played cards again with our neighbour and his friend. Then we watched a Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It was quite an acrobatic act because we did it in on the upper bed and beds in train are usually pretty narrow. It got quieter around us and when the film was finished, everyone was already a sleep around us.

Then the train stopped at Perm and we could not go to the toilet, because when the train stops in a larger city – we can not go to the toilet for 20 minutes before and after the train station. We slept a lot better than the first night, but a lot shorter, because people started waking up at 4.30, even though the train did not stop in Yekaterinburg before 8.30h.