Excuse me? I'm sure I've just misheard the lady at the front desk. It's standard after all for places in Russia to lose their hot water for about a month in the summer. Why is not clear, but people are used to not asking why so it continues. The woman repeats - we have no cold water.
Trying to flush the toilets - no water. At a bar trying to wash my hands - no cold water. Even trying to eat pelmeni, a boiled dumpling served in broth, I'm told that unfortunately they have no broth because, you guessed it, no cold water. Yeah I know, broth is made from hot water, but remember what I said about asking questions? The most information I could glean was that the whole city would be like this until monday. Maybe the city just forgot there were more than 28 days in July.
The evening news did provide some clarity - the city's cold water pipes are being repaired. Whether this is planned or unplanned we'll never know, my Russian is not that good.
And so I will always remember thee Krasnoyarsk, city bez kholodnoi vodi. Oh and the hike we did in Stolby National Park was pretty nifty too. But you'll just have to wait for pictures to know more about that.
On to Baikal!
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