Meanwhile Peeps cheat death in Russia

[DucHead]

I've spent weeks at a time in both Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk and I've never seen but one (minor) traffic accident.  I've seen far more in Florence, Italy.   

[MendoDave]

You have yet to visit two of the best states and the best province in Canada. ^^^

[BoDiddley]

Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it, or something like that.

[ab]

Like in the movie "final destination", the ripper will come after the survivors.

[ungeheuer]

I've spent weeks at a time in both Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk............

There's a story there... care to tell more?

[herm]

either incredibly good or incredibly BAD drivers!?!?!?

[DucHead]

There's a story there... care to tell more?

Meh, it's boring.  I visited the Razuvaev Institute in Nizhny and spent ~1 month there.  For a week I attended a conference aboard a "river boat" that sailed up the Kama and Volga rivers to Perm and back.  Along the way, we visited small Russian villages each of which had a WWII memorial (as you know, ~20 million Russians died during WWII, so all Russian towns and cities have memorials) and a story of a poet/ess who committed suicide -- suicide seems to be amongst the favorite past times in rural Russia, at least in the past. 

After 2 or 3 such excursions, I decided to take a run instead of taking a suicide story tour.  At one point, I found myself in an "all too rural" area and was passed by 3 or 4 trucks with men in the beds carrying what appeared to be hunting rifles and shotguns.  My arse puckered a bit, but they weren't interested at all in a foreigner jogging in the woods.

First pic is the war memorial in Novosibirsk, the second two are pics from the river boat on the Volga.

[ungeheuer]

Not boring at all.....

[DucHead]

Not boring at all.....

Thanks!   

Nizhny Kremlin:


etc.




/thread jack

[ungeheuer]

 

[MendoDave]

 

[DucHead]

[ungeheuer]

^^ nice bridge...

... so were these Russian trips work or pleasure?

[DucHead]

^^ nice bridge...

... so were these Russian trips work or pleasure?

Yes.     I had a collaborations with groups in Nizhny and in Novosibirsk, so there was a little lab work, a few conferences and some opportunity for sight-seeing.

[Triple J]

Cool pictures