Day 89 Wednesday 29th June 2011
We are smug today. We are counting our blessings that although our departure from Vladivostok is delayed we at least have hotel accommodation in the city centre.
If no hotel accommodation could have been found I was seriously thinking of flying home and coming back next week when the bikes should have then been cleared and the shuttlecock gang would have left town leaving space at the Inn for us poor mortals trapped in the Twilight Zone.
In that the arrival of the DongHae ferry was late the departure too today was not going to schedule so we gave up on that. This was to be the highlight of our day. We had set out to find a bookshop with English books so that I could replace my now finished Jeffrey Deaver thriller but, as we suspected, this was never going to happen and even the more simpler task of finding foot powder to take away the growing stench of my Goretex walking boots proved fruitless.
Surprises of the day (and surprises are few and far between here) have been the fact that the hospital ship which has been a feature of the harbour scene since the day we arrived has disappeared during the night – a huge white liner with big red crosses slipped out under our noses and biggest surprise was that we actually got chips as a buffet choice in our dinner tonight – OK they were cold but Hey ! Chips is Chips
No pictures today because I inadvertently left my camera in the room so you will ahve to use your imagination.
PS : Incidentally, a few people have asked “Who won the vagina making competition?” Well, I have to report that the competition was abandoned when it was discovered that the raw material at breakfast were not of a standard high enough and did not have the right constituency to reproduce a realistic looking vagina so we decided to wait until stock improves before continuing with this task.
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