Carpe Diem – Tyumen
This long train trip gives us opportunity to be bored. Slowly we are comfortable enough with each other to be silent, and gradually we slip into blessed boredom. I see […]
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Carpe Diem Haiku – Yekaterinburg
Our train ride is about crossing borders. Borders between continents and regions, but also our inner borders. Sometimes these crossing coincide, maybe it’s the interruption of a simple sign that […]
Carpe Diem Haiku – Perm
Conversations meander like the many small rivers and brooks we pass. All of the sudden I feel that you have left, as your thoughts have carried you through many doors […]
Carpe Diem Haiku – Kirov
The bunk beds in a sleeping car provides a frugal comfort as I travel on. The rocking of the train and rhythm soon synchronize with my gentle heartbeat, and I […]
Carpe Diem Haiku – Volga River
Crossing a big river on our long trip, breaks not only the monotony of the taiga forests but it interrupts our conversations as well. Somehow the train has been transformed, […]
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