Toad we want a full report like you said you'd give when you got back. :)I hope it went well for you.I want to hear the best and worst parts to as I am saving for my trip there.If I ever find someone to go see.Did you guys hit it off? Did you need "special" warmers there from the cold? Don't make me reach through this screen and force it out of you let's hear it. :)~~Sandman~~
WORST PARTS:
1. Everything you've heard about John Wayne T.P is true...On the other hand, when I said 'enough of non-wipping stuff', I found a brand of peach flavored Charming double lined and extra wide TP that I've never seen even in the states...go figure.
2. Onion skin thin mattresses. Guaranteed to stiffen the most muscled and toned backs.
3. Ekaterinburg main streets are full of potholes and it does not have enough snowplow equipment/crews to keep up. Still a beautiful city, but streets look like crap compared to Tyumen, whose popular governor is keeping the roads clean, fixed and is even planting the seeds of an anti smoking campaign by not allowing tobacco billboards.
more to come. Give me some time to rest and collect notes.