Sochi

Frequent stops and occasionally we can hop off to buy something to eat.
Catherine and Matt from Melbourne who we kept bumping into. Their daughter Sophia (4) still asleep.
Me asleep, thanjs Brownie.
The first class carriage was still a bit squeezy and the bed narrow but much preferred to the boredom and monotony of an airport.
But overnight the landscape has changed from the vast Russian plains farmed and forested to lush mountains with wide and flowing rivers to the shores of the Black Sea.
Its Sunday and the beaches are full.
Our motel The Razin is small but clean, comfortable and a lazy fifteen minutes to the beaches past fruit stalls, park vendors and happy beach going families.
My first ever swim iin the Black Sea and remembered it had to be salt.
The city would have to be the Amalfi of Russia, pebbly beaches but great swimming and wonderful promenade, seafood restaurants and cafes, and shops of all sorts for all the girls.
That is a confectionary shop and the confectionary is a cherry flavoured jelly filled with walnuts. Czytaj więcej