After a day of work in Moscow we catched a night train to Kazan in order to go easter for Easter. We had booked “seat tickets” (not cupé, open landscape with benches) via the not so user friendly rzd website but were both able to sleep the whole night.
The view from the train is very “Russian”, fields, forest and not very nice looking houses. If this was a trip in the Swedish tv show “På spåret”, it would be difficult to guess without good leads since it looks like this in great parts of Russia. In combination with tea drinking with hot water from the samovar the vibes from the transsiberian trip 2009 is hard to avoid.
It is late April but spots of snow and ice is visible. According to the weather forecast there should be decent weather in Kazan and since I want to give spring a chance I have left a warm jacket in Moscow and winter shoes in Zurich.