I spent night in rental apartment in Irkutsk and then in the morning our group met at airport at 9 am. Some people were flying in overnight, so we picked them up and loaded our car.
This day was a right out to Baikal itself, but we had a stop planned. It is Taltsy museum, which is very interesting place to see.

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At midday I picked up my bag and headed over to airport. I decided to have lunch there - expensive, but less chance to get caught in traffic jam and be late.
My plane got replaced from Airbus seating 170 people to Embrair with only 76 seats. Luckily I got registered early in app, so I kept window seat.


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I had about 5 hours to spend before I had to head out to airport. Thankfully there's a direct bus from station there.
So I took bus out to city and walked back.

Along the way ny phone decided to announce that it is too old and died from cold. I had power bank... and wrong cable. So I had to buy new one. Took a chance to warm up a bit.

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I am finally on my way to Irkutsk to start 5 days trip around lake Baikal.

There is no good direct flight I could take, so I took overnight train to neighbor city of Novosibirsk and will fly from there. Funny, but there was faster option for same price, but it would mean 3 hours flight to Moscow and then 4 hours flight back. You can guess why I ( Read more... )

I spent day shopping for new dress. I hate that kind of shopping, but it is unavoidable. Worse is that I had to go on my own - sister moved for a year for her job and I am not making mother go shopping at -30 and spending whole day walking. I did send them both photos of all dresses I thought were a maybe.
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It has been 2.5 years since my last meaningful post. I don't like new format and so I just stopped using app. But as a result I ended with a lot of photos left unsorted, and looking at them I want to share.

I will restart Golden Ring vacation posts before moving on new ones. I had a few very beautiful trips and have next one planned out for February ( Read more... )

   On the main world theme - so far there is not a single confirmed case in my city and area, although 30 people are in hospitals for flu and cold symptoms and 3000+ are at in home quarantine, as they are tourists and the ones who were in contact. Schools and unis went online and sports events are cancelled, for which I am grateful, as it means ( Read more... )

Fro the thefridayfive

1. Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas - which one do you use?
Neither - Happy New Year!

2. Do you own an ugly Christmas sweater?
No. But I do own a warm winter sweater with a deer, that I wear sometimes to work when it is really cold.

3. Do you celebrate the Winter Solstice?
No.

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For thefridayfive

1. Have you seen any holiday commercials yet?
Not yet, but on other hand, I don't own a TV, so they might be already on.

2. Will you or have you ever participated in Black Friday?Didn't participate before, might try this year, but only in online stores. There are some things I want to buy that I don't really need and don't want to spent ( Read more... )