{"id":34095,"date":"2019-01-25T04:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=34095"},"modified":"2019-01-25T04:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:36:50","slug":"jan-25-19-weve-arrived-into-tayshet-russian-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=34095","title":{"rendered":"JAN 25, 19 .. WE’VE ARRIVED INTO TAYSHET RUSSIAN SIBERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We are here!” .. ” After all of the heat<\/em><\/span> (Novosibirsk and Mariinsk were right at 0\u00b0C \/ 32\u00b0F) that we’ve been having, today’s arrival temperature of -20\u00b0C (-4\u00b0F) really felt great to yours truly.”<\/p>\n

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“Students please listen up to me.” .. “Thank You ‘Zilla there in the back row.”<\/p>\n

“In the Russian cyrillic alphabet this lad :\u00a0\u0419\u00a0<\/span>sounds out as an I<\/span>.<\/p>\n

“Please say Thailand<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 for me.” .. “Now please just say ‘Thai’<\/em><\/span> or even ‘Tie’<\/em><\/span> ”<\/p>\n

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“Great. We’re halfway there.”<\/p>\n

“In the Russian cyrillic alphabet, this lad :\u00a0\u0428\u00a0<\/span>‘sounds out as’ .. sh<\/em><\/span> .. as in sh\u00a0<\/em><\/span>all.”<\/p>\n

“Here we go.\u00a0\u0422\u0410\u0419\u0428\u0415\u0422<\/em><\/span> ‘ sounds out as’ THAI SHET<\/em><\/span>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Google Maps has got the English word for\u00a0\u0422\u0410\u0419\u0428\u0415\u0422 wrong when they write it TAYSHET.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is NOT the sound of Tay that rhymes with Hay. It is the sound of Thai that rhymes with pie.<\/p>\n

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Taishet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Taishet Railway station is very nice.<\/p>\n

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The railway station is very close to our hotel. Lets call it 100 meters. As you’ve already seen in the above photos, this morning it was an invigoratingly brisk -20\u00b0C or -4\u00b0F. Love it.<\/p>\n

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Attitude.<\/em><\/span> I’m beginning to get a positively bad attitude about stairs. These railway platform access stairs you see below I had to navigate back in Mariinsk and they are ‘starting-to-get-to-me’. It’s not just some stairs we have below. They’re snowy and icy stairs that are life and limb threatening.<\/p>\n

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Into my hotel I come! Will all of you look what awaits me. Our room is up on the 2nd floor and there is NO elevator.<\/p>\n

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“What’s that ‘Zilla?” .. “There are 27 steps ‘Zilla. Three landings, nine steps each landing.”<\/p>\n

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Clean modest room for 3,200 Russian Rubles (US $47.76). We were then charged a one-time extra 800 Russian Rubles (US $11.94) because we booked our room with a telephone call. I know, it’s only another twelve bucks BUT.. !<\/p>\n

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Clean restroom.<\/p>\n

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A nice mini-fridge.<\/p>\n

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First things first. We immediately went shopping to purchase 10 liters of bottled water. I love to ‘flavor’ (4 parts water 1 part fruit juice) my drinking water with fruit juice and always have chilled bottles RTD (R<\/span>eady T<\/span>o D<\/span>rink ‘Zilla). Keeping them by the window keeps them chilled.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to call this ‘Welcome To\u00a0\u0422\u0410\u0419\u0428\u0415\u0422 (Taishet) Post’<\/span><\/em> a done deal.<\/p>\n

We arrived at 9am exactly on time. It’s now 3:45pm and I haven’t stopped yet. Mike passed out from exhaustion three hours ago. Mike, bless him, is doing a lot of the\u00a0 heavy lifting as to helping me get my bag up and down, and up and down again and again with regard to these steps. Of course I am not helpless by any stretch and, as he’s carrying his two bags, I am working my own bag. God bless him. Often he ‘shames’ young husky stalwart Russian males into carrying my bag. Then when I give them a small gratuity (100 or 200 Russian Rubles US $1.50 to $3) each of us is happy. After checking into our hotel, we immediately went out shopping (bottled water, instant noodle soup, bread, fruit juice, yogurt, snickers food<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 bars, cereal) for well over an hour. We were in and out of about five mini-grocery stores to get what we wanted to get.<\/p>\n

Oh By The Way !!<\/p>\n

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Our room does come with Wi-Fi that is certainly acceptable.<\/p>\n

The Time Has Come for me to text Patti and ask her to proof read this and to publish it.<\/p>\n

Smiling .. Cap and Patti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We are here!” .. ” After all of the heat (Novosibirsk and Mariinsk were right at 0\u00b0C \/ 32\u00b0F) that we’ve been having, today’s arrival temperature of -20\u00b0C (-4\u00b0F) really… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tayshet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34095"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34144,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34095\/revisions\/34144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}