Comments on: A Day Somewhere Near Poronaysk http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316 A British expat on Sakhalin Island Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Qatar Cat http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316&cpage=1#comment-158245 Qatar Cat Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:02:38 +0000 http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316#comment-158245 Russia's bad roads are famous worldwide, that's true, but the beach diversion is hilarious! It was kind of you to play chess with the guard. And oh my God, Gastello! You know (I am sure you do) that Gastello was the first Russian pilot-kamikaze? I just thought the name of the town is fitting... judged by the description you provided :) Russia’s bad roads are famous worldwide, that’s true, but the beach diversion is hilarious!

It was kind of you to play chess with the guard.

And oh my God, Gastello! You know (I am sure you do) that Gastello was the first Russian pilot-kamikaze? I just thought the name of the town is fitting… judged by the description you provided :)

]]> By: Tatyana http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316&cpage=1#comment-157955 Tatyana Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:24:56 +0000 http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316#comment-157955 I can just smell that ????. Vividly. Eeewww! I can just smell that ????.
Vividly.
Eeewww!

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Russia: Sakhalin Travel http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316&cpage=1#comment-157882 Global Voices Online » Russia: Sakhalin Travel Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:00:17 +0000 http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316#comment-157882 [...] White Sun of the Desert writes about his recent Sakhalin travel: “The journey back entailed me having to do one of those things I’d always hoped I’d never have to do: enter a 4-berth Russian railway carriage which has 3 people sleeping in it already, and the spare bed is piled high with the others’ luggage, the space between the beds has a suitcase in it, and there is no sign of your own bedding.” Share This [...]

]]> By: David Duff http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316&cpage=1#comment-157871 David Duff Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:12:58 +0000 http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316#comment-157871 Varske, no insult was intended, it just struck me as a very Russian expression of a Russian characteristic; a characteristic, I guess, which helped them beat the Germans in WWII. Coming from the keyboard of our 'up and at 'em', western host, it struck me as amusing. Varske, no insult was intended, it just struck me as a very Russian expression of a Russian characteristic; a characteristic, I guess, which helped them beat the Germans in WWII. Coming from the keyboard of our ‘up and at ‘em’, western host, it struck me as amusing.

]]> By: varske http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316&cpage=1#comment-157862 varske Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:35:30 +0000 http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316#comment-157862 I think that quote was something I could really relate to. Not fatalism but more: just because it isn't done in the UK, doesn't mean it isn't perfectly sensible in Russia, given everything else that is different. I think that quote was something I could really relate to. Not fatalism but more: just because it isn’t done in the UK, doesn’t mean it isn’t perfectly sensible in Russia, given everything else that is different.

]]> By: David Duff http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316&cpage=1#comment-157796 David Duff Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:42:53 +0000 http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=316#comment-157796 "it is wise to not worry about strange behaviour and better to just allow events to unfold" Sounds as though you might have caught a severe dose of Russian fatalism! “it is wise to not worry about strange behaviour and better to just allow events to unfold”

Sounds as though you might have caught a severe dose of Russian fatalism!

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