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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.

Silk Road

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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publications about declining Russian production, army, industry, morality. About people loosing communistic ideals and having nothing to replace them, we expect to see very bleak picture of desinegrating country. People from my group also complained about bad conditions in their respectable places and bad behavior of its inhabitants, but they themselves, I should say, were pretty nice and decent people. I think in spite of current brain drain and assault on national genofond in Communistic era, the human recourses of Russia are not as exhausted as it seems to us, and because of it Russia has chance of revival.

Tomorrow I will go by train to Odessa, then by ship to Turkey, then by bus/bike combination to Iran, yes to Iran. I learned that they give transit visa up to 10 days easily even to Americans. Then to Pakistan and China

Odessa

I am in Odessa. My love to Odessa started in 1947 when my mother brought me to Odessa for the summer vacation. After gloomy and cold Leningrad, still not restored after the war, the Odessa looked like the fantasy land. In the first day I found on the beach a little dead crab. This incredible animal impressed me so much that I carry it all day long, in spite of my mother's protests. On the wall of my grand mother's kitchen was the saw from the sawfish which impressed me even more. But mussel pilaff which my grand mother cooked is still the most testiest food I ever had.
I haven't been here for 22 years, but I quickly remember how people in Odessa realated to each other, by sex. for example: "Jenshina, pochem vashi rachki" (Woman, how mich are yours shrimps). I think the Odessa is the same. The smell of sub tropical greenery at Primorski boulevard is the same. View on the port from the top of Potemkinskaya staircase is the same, the old Dilapidated baroque buildings on the Deribasovskay street are the same. Even the Gambrinus, the only beer bar I know, in which ...