Two weeks ago I went to Denis's grandparent's dacha with Rosario and Tomash. The weather here has been incredibly hot - around 95 degrees, and being in open fields as opposed to the stuffy metro was a welcome change. Their dacha is outside of the city of Petushki, which is about two and a half hours by electric train car outside of Moscow. Many Russians have dachas, which are country homes outside of the city, and most keep gardens there. Dachas can be simple wooden houses without plumbing, or sturdy brick houses with plumbing and electricity. Most everything depends on the person's economic abilities. Most essential to dachas are the Russsian banya - a HOT steam room, considered absolutely essential to good health here in Russia. Russians make banya's an all day ritual...sit in the banya until you can't take it anymore, then a cold shower, drink, eat, and repeat. It's brutal - but you feel oh-so-clean and new afterwards. I hope to go back next weekend.
On the electric train to Petushki. People sell their goods on the way, walking from one train car to the next - and items of the moment, The selling product that day - ice cream.
Denis and Tomash in the field outside of the dacha village. We spent about two hours walking the fields and surrounding woods, and escaping city life.
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