The dining car was also used for lectures. See the tables pushed up agains the windows?
David telling us about Putin and Medvedev. He is a terrific lecturer.
A huge station where we stopped briefly.
A more typical station along the way. We passed by and/or stopped at a lot that looked just like this.
All the stations had little snack shops. We all became well acquainted with Russian chocolates and cookies!
The most common scene from our windows was this--birch tree after birch tree after birch tree.
A typical small village that we passed by.
Another village. I like this one because you can see the small cathedral in the background.
And another village shot, which shows how just about every yard is a vegetable garden. Pre-1990, these would have all been communal farms, but now everyone has fenced off their own individual plots.
I think this is probably the prettiest landscape photo I took, if a bit blurry!
And a very beautiful sunset during one of our short stops.
