Early in the morning my friend Alla took me to the unimpressing river jetty in Tobolsk. In fact it is the walking distance from the Kremlin. “Rodina” was already there. The ship does not look very impressive – it is 60 years old! Young lady at the gangway showed me the way to my 6-bed cabin. There were already 3 local ladies and 2 boys coming back from the vacations to their homes in Salekhard. Lucky me! They will not push me to drink vodka! The cabin is very cramp with 3 lower and 3 upper beds. But is has a big window. The only addition is little table below the window – like in the train. Shared toilets Asian-style are 20 m out. You have to pay extra 100 roubles for sheets and little towel. They were playing the Slovyanki waltz when we were departing at 7 am local time. I have 4 days/ 3 nights journey ahead!
