We make a little deviation in the way to visit Ilja family, who live in Barnaul. It was David’s second time in Barnaul in 6 month. It’s a curious place to be, at the same distance from Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Any traveller can feel that place as a crossing point, with different cultures and influences, that kind of places that you feel as a known place, even if you aren’t been there ever.
Barnaul skyline
We had great lunch, some rest and a great dinner. The food was perfect, and abundant, also the drink. The night was long, we were singing all together. Russian songs, some Catalan song, and the kindness that makes you feel in home, even if you don’t understand a single word.
Great dinner, better company
Next morning, after the deserved rest, we went to buy new tyres. The road is so bad, and so frozen that it’s impossible to continue the trip with our regular winter tyres. For our surprise, Ilja uncles bought the tyres and give us as a present. Big present. We give them many thanks.
New tyres
Then, David prepared lunch: pasta at “Catalan/Italian/David” style. Which consist in pasta, mushrooms, milk, butter and different kinds of cheese, as many as he could find. And we went to Novosibirsk again, but before they showed us their second house in a small village near Barnaul.
Thanks for everything
