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| Another old car, but in better shape: Lavrentev's car in front of the building of the 'Young Scientist Club' | I forgot which institute is located at this robot building | |||
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| On our way to Altai, 13/07/03 | Volker had to do some acrobatic exercises in order to get to and from his chair because of our luggage; he had to sit there because he was too late at our departure and all other seats were taken | Our Japanese Nissan at the first stop; at this point ut still seemed to work perfectly | ||
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| Our driver and Vladimir | Hey, who took my camera? I didn't take this picture | Apparently the thief rotates his camera in the other direction when taking portrait pictures than I do | ||
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| Roland, Volker and Frederic in front of the Cafe-without-lunch-sign; this is also the place where the driver had to change the two flat tires we had encountered after the first stop | Biisk is the first town you encounter when driving the M52 from Novosibirsk to Altai | At the next stop where the driver had to fix something on the bus | Unfortunately these signs do not show the distance; it would have been nice to see our progress | Whatever problem caused the bus to stop might have been contageous, because apparently my camera seemed to have problems taking bright pictures all of a sudden |
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| A normal picture of Volker in front of the sign was obviously not good enough for him | At this point we had already pushed the bus to start it and we were waiting for some people to get back on the bus | I forgot to ask Yusuke what these Japanese signs mean | I didn't see a railroad nearby... | |
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| They try to sell you a lot of honey at this place; unfortunately we didn't stop here on the way back; there were quite a few people who decided not to buy it on the way to Altai but on the way back instead | The locals use strange devices in order to keep their appetizers warm | The next regular stop | at the Merkrit restaurant | |
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| Our table: Tatiana Michailovna, Roland, Volker, Sacha, Vladimir, Alexander and Frederic | And the other table: Robert (on the back), nn, Ivan, Yusuke, Kundan, Natalia, Mischa, Sergey and two other passengers on our bus that seemed to be related to the driver | I think they wanted us to eat some kind of horse meat; for the vegetarians they only had salad and bread with some hot red sauce | Next morning, 14/07/03, at our workshop residence 'Areda 2' | Somebody trying to warm herself over a fireplace after having climbed some mountain before breakfast without asking us to come along |