Snow!

Having been assured that spring had arrived we were all very surprised to find snow awaiting us when we got up for breakfast on Sunday morning, about 3 inches had fallen over night which changed the landscape completely.

Blizzards did not however stop these guys from seeing how many health and safety rules they could break in one go. I snapped this from the bus on the way back to Czech Camp, double click the picture to enlarge it and you will see one on them is up a ladder. What's unfortunately hidden is the welding torch the chap up the ladder is using on the lampost!

Only the British could travel as far east as you can go before bumping into China and in this interesting land choose to go out to eat at..... an Indian! My hopes of tasting some local cuisine were dashed by a visit to a local hotel (best restaurant in town) which has an Indian chef. He is obviously a busy man because he only had time to put 4 things on the menu. We chose them all and enjoyed our meal despite having no local input. This was followed by a visit to a large tin shack generously called a nightclub by those who took me there. Interesting experience, in KZ there a 4 x as many single women as men so the club dance floor was almost entirely populated by women. Couple of hours of Russion techo was all I could take so I retired, whilst my hosts decided to try another club in town, which they later informed me was just as good.