Matthias living

For already 2 weeks now, I am travelling on my own. After 30 great days of travelling with Matthias trough Ukraine and Russia, he left from Yekaterinburg the 27th of June to go back home starting his PhD in Karlsrhue.

Good luck with that!

Hard to weak up...Lost in the Russian country side??
Having fun in Yekaterinburg doing some hard drinking and partying...

Last picture together.

Life in the train

Finnaly some news...

I'll explain the life in russian train after a total of more than 100hrs in those slow, noisy and shacky wagon. The russian railway network looks like that:

I travelled from Moscow to St-Petersburg in 2nd class (Kupe) during the night for 8hrs. The trip was easy and quiet, we had a good rest. After that we did only 3rd class, which means that their is no compartiment in the wagon, just an endless rows of beds (6 per section). It is much more fun and it's easyer to make contact with people. So we travelled from St-Petersburg to Perm (30hrs) than to Yekaterinburg (5hrs) . Then Matthias left me with a big hangover togo back to Germany and I carry o alone to Tyumen (5hrs) and finnaly to Irkutsk (50hrs). The last part was definitly the best! I travelled with a bunch of students going back home for the summer holidays. Here are some pictures of the trip:

Singin russian songs...

Drinking beer and Vodka, playing russian card game (very interesting games:-)

Strechings the legs during a 20min stops

Now I am heading to Mongolia...