Friday, 29 June 2012

Richard and Maija in Seida, photo: University of Eastern FinlandHaving survived the train ride of almost two days - and about 46.5 hours - we (Carolina and Richard) safely arrived at 8:30 this morning in Seida in Komi Republic in Russia. PAGE21 Post Doc Maija Marushchak was already waiting for us at the train station. After being welcomed by Maija the first task was to transport the huge amount of luggage (all in all 10 different pieces) to our new temporary home in Seida.
It was possible to organise a small transport vehicle so that this first part could be accomplished very quickly.



Short description of the train ride: boring, boring, boring, sleeping all the time and except one Russian girl nobody spoke English around us. We were just looking out of the window, but the landscape didn't really change so much until the second morning.

Then, when we woke up in the morning, we were driving through the Tundra with HGH a beautiful view of the Ural Mountains. Although this train ride was quite exhausting it was all in all a really good and unusual experience.

2 days in the train - Entertainment was scarce, photo: University of Eastern FinlandAfter arrival we moved to our new home, which is a nice wooden house in the middle of the village Seida, where we will live and rest during the weekends. We continued with having breakfast and there already started to discuss the basic things on how to "survive" in Seida. Seida itself is very small, with approximately 20 people living there, but not all of them permanently. But there is a small shop where we can buy the basic things, a train station as well as a sauna, which we will visit now.

Attached pictures show Maija and Richard taking first look on the village and Carolina and Richard during the train ride to Seida.

 

 

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