Winter in a Russian village

What a shame, it's been already a month since my last entry! I promise, I'll try to do it better!

Before I'll go on with writing about my experiences in Central Asia here's something about my new year's trip to the west, or at least one of the most eastern parts of the west: Moscow. Or, more exactly, about the trip to my cousin's friends datscha, about 100 km away from Moscow.


It used to be a real village, now there's only one 25 year old man living there permanently. All the other houses are used as summer houses now by people who live in Moscow. There's no running water so you have to go outside to take water from the well.

If was cold, but really beautyfull. Just the right setting for an evening in front of the fire (and a way to get warm :-) )