People

Eventually the Russian guy asked why I was writing down things he said. And so I explained, and he laughed.

"It's cold here"

"You think its cold, In Russia it is minus 15"

"I seem to wake up ok when I drink"

"You wake up ok, in Russia we drink too much. Special events, like holidays; In Russia we have tradition of you have some events, its ok for your family drinking vokda, say some cheers."

"It feels cold"

"In Russia we have saying, 'In Siberia, people not scared of frost, they just have good clothes'"

"I worked for a mobile phone company"

"In Russia we haven't some high technology, we don't do the phones. We can do the rails, we can do the gas"

Later on I heard an American at the lodge, again. Loud complaints over the phone to a probably suffering ear about how terrible Delhi was. And that her mum needed to send her some more money... It turns out this is a woman of about 60 who is quite quite loopy. (And racist, enough so to remind me that I'm not a racist and I have to take Delhi with a shovel of salt).

The sharp young men at the lodge do the mad gesture (twirling finger at the temple) followed by the word "totally". They later on mention talking, with nobody there... oh dear