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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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and something else on Japanese which I cannot re-produce.
On the picture below is our group On another picture is entrance to Forbidden city with chairman Mao in front. On third picture I with Chinese girl. It is real girl not a toy. Her parents for some reason wanted to photograph their daughter with me.

Alex Mumzhiu
Beijing China
Oct 20 2001

Continuation of Trans Mongolian train journey. I do not remember anything interesting in Ulan Ude except for unusually push i personnel in hotel Baikal where I stay. I would like to add few words about Russian, or more proper to say Soviet service. I told my friends in St. Petersburg how surprised I was, when I did not see many Russians in Crimea. And they told me that for the same money people now can go to Turkey or Bulgaria resorts and the service is better there. It surprised me. The Crimea is ten times more interesting then these places. Bad service, who cares!!! How can they be so sensitive and such sissies. After two months in Russia that service gets on my nerve too, especially in Siberia, which like in time machine, frozen in Soviet times. An entire army of service personnel such as hairdressers, public toilet attendants, cashiers, waiters and sales people use their position to insult, harass and torture their customers exactly the same way as it was during Socialism. Public service places have a number of reason to be closed exactly when you need them. Closed for lunch, for inventory checks, for re-training, for repair, for "yshla na basy" and recent new invention for technological breaks. All public services surprise by their inefficiency and plain stupidity. Rail Road cassas always have long lines, in hotels, they may have sometimes a hot water in shower, but then, they do not have cold one. If they have tea, then they do not have sugar and so on. So when I came to Ylan Bator (Mongolia) and asked lady at information desk for something, she smile to me. I was shocked. ...