Facts for the visitor to Irkutsk: 1. Hotel Angara is the posh hotel for business men and their entourages. It sells out of single rooms, so all the dreams of jacuzzis that you may have had on a long train trip will cost around 70 quid a night 2. Hotel Arena is cheap and pleasant, […]
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Today: Irkutsk Feeling: A little Grimey. (Not like Aisha, just like a man who hasn’t seen hot water in a few days)
24 hours in Moscow is very much like watching a 1970s television set; at times it is monochromatic and clunky looking and it seems kind of Kitsch. There’s the desire to make it look better by fiddling with the contrast – contrast between rich and poor, and cold and hot. By the end of the
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