We have the weekends off from volunteering, and yesterday I went on an excursion. Here at my homestay (the apartment where all the CCS volunteers live) there are usually 25 or 30 of us. Most of the volunteers went to Moscow for the weekend, so the three of us who stayed behind went on an afternoon trip. We took a boat about an hour up the Volga river to a place called Tolga. I'm not sure if I can call it a town. All I saw there was beach, countryside, a monastery, and a bunch of tiny dachas (Google it). I put my feet in the Volga, but I didn't swim. We had a picnic in the shade and spent the afternoon reading and relaxing. It was great. A vacation within my vacation. The boat rides there and back cost a total of only 30 rubles (a little less than a dollar). Again, it was great.
To finish, here is a Russian fact for your day: As far as I can tell, most Russian men wear speedos and almost all Russian women wear bikinis.
Can you post pictures on this blog? Not that visualizing Russians in speedos and bikinis isn't well enough. (Did you see that I made a deposit?)
ReplyDeleteI can post pictures, but it's kind of some extra work. Maybe I'll do that sometime. Again, thanks for the money.
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