Took a walk around Yayva as a bit of a Sunday constitutional stroll after lunch. It's not all apartment blocks...
Nearly Every property though had a dog chained up in the garden. And as soon as one barks they all do. Only -7 today so relatively mild.
Found the railway station - you have to cross a set of tracks to get to the building in the picture as demonstrated by a train trundling through just after pic taken.
This is a cafe in the town - we only know as it's the one we went for breakfast in on the day of arrival. All very anonymous and no real indication as to what's behind the door as you can see.
Quickest way to get around is to ice skate down the street.
So had a couple of hours walk as we also went to look at the river which is just ourside town. Bit disappointed to see that it wasnt frozen over and was actually in flow and steaming. Probably as a result of the coal fired power station cooling water discharge as it uses the river for direct cooling I.e no cooling towers, although the new ccgt station has a tower system. A few fishermen about on the bank but couldn't see what they were catching.
Were slowly sorting our grub out from the supermarket, not perfect but managing. Our biggest issue is communication with home, no Internet at the hotel or work(yet) so no skype etc, emails, unless we use our Russian dongle which is so slow as to be virtually like dial up, or use our Uk iPhones on edge( 3 g intermittent) at £6/ mb and £1.50/min calls!!!!!! Al G's Company phone doesn't work Over here (long story and wasn't unexpected!!!) so it's got a Russian sim in it at the moment so it's not totally useless although can't use it as a modem on the laptop as we can't yet download the appropriate software - no robust enough Internet connection. It's called catch 22!!!!
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