This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.
This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.
The funny thing is I can taste and smell this ice cream and my mom would tell me “no, no, this one tastes different, plombir in the Soviet Union was something different”. There’s a lot of older people longing for that ice cream that you are holding as if it could bring back youth. It’s crazy.
(I will assume that the 1992 version was still the old taste)
I love this comment. Most of the stops at stations in Russia were short - about 15 minutes or so. I would usually walk around the platform and buy something to supplement the borscht and vodka on the train. Sometimes it was a couple of bottles of not very good beer, sometimes some apples, and once a babooshka had a cardboard box with a bunch of these ice cream cones in it. I remember that the ice cream was distinctly different than what I was used to - not particularly good but it was fun to have. This ice cream was bought in a pretty rural Siberian area only 10 months after the USSR collapsed - I have no idea but would guess that 1992 version that I had was still the ‘old taste’.