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... )

We are heading to airport for our flight. It is overnight flight, we leave at 1:30am and land at 8 am. So wish me a good flight, please.

Waiting for boarding call.

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After visiting Sevastopol we spent a day just relaxin and walking through a park, next day we went to excursion around palaces: Livadian, Vorontsov and Swallow's Nest. (this part is copied from my post at glimpseatmyday)

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As I am stuck inside both because there is a rainstorm since morning and because I was called from work with a bunch of questions, here are some photos.

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