The day starts quite late. Whereas everybody wakes up around 11 am at the hotel, a funny French-Greek couple (Julien & Dimitris) only returns by midday from last night party.
We leave Yekaterinburg under a surprisingly warm and sunny weather (25°C). After the comfort of the first travel in kupe (compartments of 4 beds each), most of us will have to spend the next 60 hours in the 3rd class wagon... Impossible not to meet people then: quite an advantage when you are making documentaries!
After discussions with each group of 3 people facilitated by Matthieu during the first train journey, two sessions gathering three teams together each are held in the wagon-restaurant. The idea is that every team presents to the others its project and its evolution, the difficulties they are facing and get some feedbacks from the other groups.
The problem -and it's both annoying and eventually funny- is that the mere fact of discussing in the wagon-restaurant seems to cause a problem to the train employees. It needs a minimum of twenty minutes of negotiation with the wagon manager, who firstly didn't want to occupy the space -where we were the only consumers and did order drinks- and secondly didn't want to turn down -not to imagine off- the music. Consumer is king... in Japan!
We leave Yekaterinburg under a surprisingly warm and sunny weather (25°C). After the comfort of the first travel in kupe (compartments of 4 beds each), most of us will have to spend the next 60 hours in the 3rd class wagon... Impossible not to meet people then: quite an advantage when you are making documentaries!
After discussions with each group of 3 people facilitated by Matthieu during the first train journey, two sessions gathering three teams together each are held in the wagon-restaurant. The idea is that every team presents to the others its project and its evolution, the difficulties they are facing and get some feedbacks from the other groups.
The problem -and it's both annoying and eventually funny- is that the mere fact of discussing in the wagon-restaurant seems to cause a problem to the train employees. It needs a minimum of twenty minutes of negotiation with the wagon manager, who firstly didn't want to occupy the space -where we were the only consumers and did order drinks- and secondly didn't want to turn down -not to imagine off- the music. Consumer is king... in Japan!
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