http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/may/31/siberia-cabin-lake-baikal-russia
I just read this article and was impressed. There's a short video that accompanies it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2013/may/31/escape-to-siberian-cabin-video
I love the line that says:
Milan Kundera said because Russia didn't have an elite in its history, and no Renaissance, Russians are still in a state of irrationality and magical thinking, like the Middle Ages.
I have met many Russians in the last couple of years and could never put my finger on what it was about them that was different to other northern Europeans. They look like us but they don't act like us. There is a different spirituality about some of them; like another dimension exists for them outside the here-and-now. Maybe it's the vastness of their terrain.
I just read this article and was impressed. There's a short video that accompanies it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2013/may/31/escape-to-siberian-cabin-video
I love the line that says:
Milan Kundera said because Russia didn't have an elite in its history, and no Renaissance, Russians are still in a state of irrationality and magical thinking, like the Middle Ages.
I have met many Russians in the last couple of years and could never put my finger on what it was about them that was different to other northern Europeans. They look like us but they don't act like us. There is a different spirituality about some of them; like another dimension exists for them outside the here-and-now. Maybe it's the vastness of their terrain.