Whenever I go to an unfamiliar city, I enjoy just walking down random streets and being surprised at what I find. We spent the last couple of days in the village of Listvyanka, on the shores of Lake Baikal (beautiful...... but more about that in another blog) where I walked for miles along the back streets. Cows walking across my path.... the community well where they still pull their drinking water up with a bucket.... women working in their vegetable gardens and tending their chickens, wildflowers, butterflies..... I "discovered" a quaint church (Church of St Nicholas) by a stream. It was an absolutely beautiful day.
