Finally get into Perm at 05:00 local time - 23:00 uk so that's 15.5 hours or so all in - 4 hours in airports, 2 hours in car getting to Birmingham, 7 hours in the air over 3 flights and 2 1/4 hours drive Perm to Yayva. We had arranged for a driver to meet us at Perm, expecting him to be in arrivals with a sign, but can't find him! Rang his mobile, but guess what, doesn't speak any english. Anyhow it turns out we were inside the terminal waiting for him and he was outside waiting for us!! We eventually hook up an hour later and were on our way. It's -14, pitch black and ice & snow on the road. We soon see a sign for Berezniki 190km and Yayva about 30 km further on. You do the maths for the average speed we're not letting on about the max we saw but We were relieved to see studded snow tyres on the car and eventually the hotel. To be fair, the guy was very quick but competent and guess what? He's our driver for the duration!
We book in and get some sleep after arranging with the site to meet up with our translator and get to the plant for 14:00.
The translator is a very nice ex school teacher of English and is quite excited about meeting two real english speakers!!! She speaks excellent English but has never conversed with a native English speaker - only germans, Turkish,etc plus the written word for translating documents - this is a common occurrence with the two other English speaking Russians on the site of 550 or so. We'll leave an impression with some Notts/Lincs slang by the time we're finished.
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