Entrance to the wonderfully cheap Hotel Tourist, |
Hotel Tourist, Volgograd |
View of the River Volga from the hotel |
Another view of the Hotel Tourist |
River Volga |
River Volga, people swimming on the left |
Mamaeev Kurgan monument to the defenders of Stalingrad |
The avenue leading up to the monument |
Mamaeev Kurgan |
People in middle distance are having their portraits sketched |
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With hammer and machine gun! |
Changing the guard in the monument |
Look - another Citroen in Volgograd ( a C4 actually) |
Hypermarket in Volgograd |
View of Volga from Hotel Slovakia, Saratov |
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Volga from Hotel Slovakia, looking East |
Central Saratov |
Central Saratov |
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Lots of Kamaz trucks |
Oil pump, common sight in Ural area |
Just liked the loo! |
First sign that the Ural mountains are coming |
Urals on their way |
First buddings of Urals plus windfarm |
What does it say? |
Somewhere on the road to Ufa |
Approaching Ufa |
Approaching Ufa, lovely road |
Opera House, Ufa |
McDonalds, Ufa |
Ufa street |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Large wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Shopping centre, Ufa |
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Wooden house, Ufa |
Soviet era mural, Ufa. |
Modern buildings, Ufa |
Modern buildings, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house detail, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
The covered market, Ufa |
Just liked the symbols |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Wooden house, Ufa |
Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
Village on road from Ufa to Chelyabinsk |
Little street market in Chelyabinsk |
That's a Stop sign |
Handy utility in hotel loo in Chelyabinsk |
Approaching Troitsk, the border town. Smokestacks can just be seen. |
Queue at Russian/Kazakhstan border |
Transporter full of old German cars on way to their new Kazakh homes. |