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Ali finds me sitting at a computer several hours later and begins to tell me the story of how she met "a nice man called Valdimir" out on her travels. So while I was sitting there typing away, she was being taken around an art gallery and got to see some wedding festivities which sounded really interesting and wish I had gone with her.
We are staying with a family in their home tonight which is in a grotty looking apartment block conveniently located in the middle of the city. Despite the not so attractive exterior, the apartment was very pleasant, cosy and clean inside. The father is a physiotherapist, the mother works in tourism and they both look after their two daughters who are at university. One is studying tourism and speaks excellent English and the other studies Architecture. One of the daughters prepared an excellent meal for us and we sat with her father to eat it just before he had to leave for work. We talked for quite a while as she translated our conversations to him. They are a very nice family and provided us with a small but interesting insight to their life in a city outside of Moscow.
Tomorrow morning we wake up at 4:00am in order to catch the 6:30am train to Ulaan Batar - the second leg of our Trans-Siberian adventure.
