Travel to Ekaterinburg On last weekend's I've been to Ekaterinburg. Distance from Omsk to Yekaterinburg is around 950km and I chose a train as transport for my travel. Of course I could use a plane but unfortunately we don't have direct air connection between our cities. So if I used a plane I'll have to flight to Moscow then get to next plane and flight back to Ekaterinburg. It is not very convenient and it is very expensive. So I booked a ticket on train that went to Ekaterinburg on Friday's evening. Train goes to Ekaterinburg about 11 hours and I use this time to take rest. That is the pros of using trains against planes ))) You can lay down on your shelf and sleep. I arrived to Yekaterinburg at early morning. I was full of energy and I had a whole day to explore the city. The main goal of my trip was taking part in Kyudo's (Japanese archery ) seminar. It was very interesting to take lessons from Japanese sensei but also it was difficult ))) because I don't know Japanese language. Also at this time Japanese princess Hisako Takamado arrived to the city to watch a game of their football team and she has visited our seminar. So now I can boast that I saw a real princess. On my way back I meet with Pablo last year student from Mexico. He spokes English very well and we talked about different things during our travelling. Pablo studies political science that's why (I think) he was interested in such questions as - what we think about falling of USSR - what we think about Ukraine, about Cremea. During our talks I learned that Pablo still didn't taste sauerkraut. So I with other fellow travellers decided to correct this omission. We took Pablo to train's dining car and buy some sauerkraut and other food. Also sauerkraut is a good snack when you drink vodka ))) So we decided to have a drink of acquaintance. Anyway for me it was a very interesting to speak with guy from another country. I hope Pablo's journey to the Lake Baykal will be successful and he will meet a lot of interesting people. Thank you all for reading this chaotic story ))) If somebody would like to train his Russian feel free to add me in Skype (Skype - ejik301, email - [email protected])