Musings..undated

Tonight we are on the trans Siberian railway.  You can’t imagine our surprise to find our cabin on the train.  Train car #6 cabin 5.  I’ve never seen anything so tiny. 8x6.  We had no idea what to do with our 2 big suitcases and a carry on each. We sat there and laughed.  The solution was take out a few things, put under the bed in the single drawer, and the suitcases went to the end of the hall.  Next to the toilet. We have a chair and a bench seat which makes into a bed. There is an upper bunk which is accessed by a stair case..not a ladder.  We are both absolutely bone tired, having done 7000 plus steps today.  We drove in a bus to see the Kremlin, the Gum store where I had a delicious ice cream cone for 100 roubles which is the equivalent of two dollars. Saw another church or two.  We got a bit of a rain storm today and visited a marvellous church which was most beautiful inside.  Tomorrow we are in Kazan and off the train at 9 until 4:30. We share a shower with another cabin and bathroom down the hall a short way.  Dinner was lovely, well served and enjoyable.  Caesar salad, beef stroganoff or something like that, with rice, and dessert which was a cake of some sort.  Both Joyce and I have swollen feet and ankles.  This trip is not for the marginally fit.  It takes a huge amount of stamina.  By and large the weather has been pleasant, not too hot or cold. Rather humid, however.  No internet until I don’t know when.  
Joyce is in the upper bunk and will have to stay there as there are three stairs...the upper stair too far from the bunk for me to access it, challenged as I am height wise.  I would need a step ladder to get there.  Well, this is an adventure isn’t it? 
We are lying in bed and the train is jerking like a bucking bronco.  Have no idea what that is all about!  We are laughing but wondering what we have got ourselves into. 

Diane Draffin 🌷