Wednesday, September 3, 2008

BATH IN LAKE BAIKAL


Just like if we were experiencing a jet lag, the day starts at 1 pm with a brunch. We have a direct view on the lake Baikal... Not bad at all! We then experience our first 'banya' of the trip: Finnish-style sauna immediately followed by a diving naked into the lake. This is really fantastic; we just now have to be careful that the workshop remains... a workshop!

Actually, most of the teams take advantage of this stopover to start editing their material. The team of Denes is still looking for more kids in the streets of Sludianka, which just experienced a terrible earthquake (magnitude 8 on the Richter scale) the week before. Fortunately, nobody got killed and there's no sign of damage. Sludianka is a strange mixture: some typically ugly Soviet buildings, but also perpendicular streets with nice wooden houses and their painted blinds. The train station itself seems to occupy one third of the space. The presence of shooting crews is a unique attraction for the city youngsters.

1 comment:

Galilea Galilei said...

Whoa!
Seems like quite the kickass day!
What a way to wash off the train rubble...