Ekaterinburg

Yesterday we arrived in Ekaterinburg, on the border of Asia and Europe. The town which is also famous because of the Czarist family, the Romanov's where killed here by the Bolsheviks. Another prominent local is (or was) Boris Yeltsin.

But before we arrived here we spend 2 days in the train from Irkutsk. In the train from Mongolia we met a British guy named James and he was in this train as well. He was sharing his compartment with two Russians who went to dinner with us. If you go to dinner with two Russians that means you have to drink Vodka, lots of Vodka. After 5 shots I started to see things a bit different, after 6 bottles (between the five of us) my memory was not functioning quite that well, except that Xander became very friendly with Vladimir and Vitali!

A beautiful Irkutsk girl named Anna was sitting with us as well, drinking beer and orange juice, she was still very friendly the day after so nothing too crazy must have happened. We were just sleeping like we were in a coma.

Back in Ekaterinburg we went for dinner with James and met some local Russian girls on the street with whom we went to a Salsa club and had some drinks. Apparantly one of them really liked me (also called Anna) because we go out the two of us tonight as well to watch the fireworks for Victory Day. Unfortunately she doesn't speak English too well and my Russian is not too impressive either.

Time is falling short though because tomorrow we are off to Moscow!