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| l-r Aleksei, Sasha, Elena, Ivan's arm, me |
Yesterday evening, Nick's colleague Sasha drove us out to his home south of Moscow. We took our swimsuits and set off on bikes to the nearby pond (in which Sasha's wife Elena also bathes during winter - plunging into a hole in the ice). Swimming in the cool water while the sun went down, reflecting on the lake, was very special. We then went back to Sasha and Elena's for a fabulous dinner of borscht, salmon and melon, after which their son Ivan brought out a chess set and played with Aleksei, a neighbouring physicist. Elena and Sasha gave me a book in Russian about art and a porcelain frog. A truly magical evening.
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| Ivan v Aleksei |
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