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Swimming in the Volga
In the morning I did some shopping.
- Handsoap
- Garlic
- A garlic press
- A splatter guard
- Double-A batteries
- Khinkali
- Lastochki, a type of chocolate candy
- Jack Daniels (for a friend, not me)
Some writing in the early afternoon. Around 4:30 Flyura and Danila picked me at took me to their home just outside of town. Flyura set out dinner, and then the three of us went to the Volga to swim a bit. Wow, things have changed so much. During the Soviet period a picture would immediately tell you that you are in Russia. Now I look around and think that if I avoided signs in Cyrillic, I don't think you could really identify where the beach was.
The water was amazingly warm and in fact «Вода уже цветёт» “The water is already blooming.” That's the Russian way of saying that the water is warm enough that all sorts of water plants and algae are growing like crazy. It's a really nice swim, but as soon as you get home, you kinda wanna shower it off.
This entry was posted on July 14th, 2012 at 11:00:00 pm by Don and is filed under Uncategorized.
1 comment
Thanks for definitions. Now, I didn’t see waterproof sunscreen and KINDA you should wash and watch out for swimmers itch and parasites there Pops. You don’t have the Constitution of those young folks at your age :) I’m very jealous of your vacation.
Don responds: Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the sunscreen. Bought two types.
