9 May, the day of Victory, 70 anniversary, the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. Demonstration of army force took place in major cities in Russia including Vladivostok. Although the parade is not as huge as the one in Moskva, it is still worth participating as an audience. Here are the pictures.
五月九日，抗戰勝利日，七十周年，納粹德軍向蘇聯投降。在俄羅斯國境主要城市皆有軍事展示。
Buses are overcrowded due to limited service provided. (Service should be strengthen due to the huge demand but not reduce huh?), having huge bags with us on the crowd bus wasn't a good experience, hard to stand straight, hard to hold the handrail, hard to balance, but when these appeared in front of me, like only 5-10 steps away, okay enjoy the parade.
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
Although the parade is not as great as the one in Moskva, it's impressing for me already.
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
СССР :O
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
Full of people on the street just to watch the victory day parade
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
Later on we went to visit the ship Nadezhda, the ship usually parked at the bay, but not for visiting. It was an open day for the ship.
Most of the restaurants are closed because of the celebration, this is one of the exception. But we waited 2.5 hours for our orders, only mine arrived, two others was forgotten. One thing interesting is, during our wait, an ex-WWII-soldier came into the restaurant, he was given a big hand and priority of having food. People showed him the greatest respect. There are not so many ex-WWII-soldiers alive nowadays, imagine it's a war 70 years ago. Not complaining, just to mention.
大部分餐廳皆不營業，以下是一例外，但我們等候了兩個半小時，只有一個飯送到，另外兩個沒有下單。有趣的是，等待期間一名前二戰軍人進來用膳，食客都拍掌歡迎他，且餐廳亦優先為他準備食物。
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
Simon and Olga went to another restaurant for lunch. Right under the statue of Lenin, opposite of the train station.
西門與奧加在火車站對面的列寧像下的一間餐廳用膳
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
After that, we boarded the train at around 16.40, departure time 17.15, look at the clock next to the train, it shows 09.35, standard Moscow time(GMT+3) compare to the local time (GMT+10), all inter-regional trains in Russia follow the schedule based on Moscow time, written on the ticket is 10.15 departure, do the adjustment in advance is necessary or you may have to wait 7 hours or miss the train in worse case.
我們約16.40登車，17.15開車，看看車站的時鐘09.35，是莫斯科時間，較海參葳時間慢7小時，在俄境內所有跨域火車皆以莫斯科時間製定時間表，買車票及出發前必須小心留意。
Before getting on the train, we purchased some food in the supermarket, most of the supermarkets here sells cooked food, inform the lady for the quantity you want, tlet her pack the food, pay at the cashier, done!
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
Drawing on the celling, showing Moskva and Vladivostok.
車站天花油畫，莫斯科與海參葳
Ticket price: 738руб, ВЛАДИВОСТОК ГОРОД - ХАБАРОВСК (Vladivostok City - Khabarovsk)
class: Плацкартный <Plackartnyj> (Reserved seat); 54 places (Места <Mesta>) in a wagon.
Ticket purchased from www.RZD.ru (directly from Russian Railways website)
Journey time: ~14 hours.
Sometimes RZD will charge you for beddings, but it's shown on my ticket that these are included in the price.
車票價格738盧布，俄鐵官網購買，只有俄語，沒有英語頁面
車廂等級 Плацкартный <Plackartnyj>，一個車廂有五十四個床位
車程約14小時，有時候俄鐵會向乘客收取床鋪的費用，100盧布，但我這票買的時候標明包括在收費內。
Sometimes you can see class Общий, sitting version of Плацкартный, 3 people on each beds on the right side, and the table on the left side shown in the picture can be turned down to be a seat, so 3 extra sitting place on the left. suitable for short distance, horrible for more than 4 hours, but price is cheap.
有時會有等級 Общий，是 Плацкартный車廂變成座位版，橫排坐六人，靠走廊直排中間的枱面反下來，共坐三人
Interior of the train
車廂內部
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
Hot water available on the train, cup noodles shall be prepared. No electric socket in the wagon, phones not chargable. People purchased the upper decker beds tend to seat on the lower before they sleep, and no one complains about that, purchase the upper decker if you want to sleep, although the space is quite narrow. :\
車內有熱水供應，應預備杯麵。不設插蘇，不能充電。上層乘客睡前愛坐下層聊天，沒看過有人不滿，如要睡飽請買上層床票，即使上層空間頗為狹小。
A 14-hour train ride is boring and nothing fun, Simon Pak and I started communicating with the lady. She is deaf, result in dumb, unfortunately, but as said, a 14-hour train ride can be boring so she took out her note book, start asking us some questions.
火車車程有時很悶，對面的婦人開始與我們溝通，她因為失聰導致說話不清，我們都是書面溝通。
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
I don't have good communication skill in Russian, so drawings are supplimented.
俄語未夠熟，不懂表達是就畫畫
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As said, hot water supply is available on the train, the lady gave us tea bags for чай <Chaj> (Tea).
個杯好靚 :O
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
We started playing Ludo because It was too boring on the train. From zero to a strong competitor, the lady picked up the rule as fast as a rocket. She won the last game!
悶得拿出飛行棋來玩。她從零開始學到反吃我們的棋，如火箭般的學習速度。
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
This picture was taken by Simon Pak:
See how happy she was!
We kept playing chess until 21.00, we gave her the chess as a gift, and we had the cup-noodle dinner. The following one hour, I made a greatest decision in my entire life, go back to the school, I hope this is a correct one, although Mr Pak pretent to be a good listener, I am quite sure he was almost felt as sleep. Getting back to school with an awful public examination result is not an easy task, so I decided to do all over again, a long process, hopping to have a better future. To be disclosed.
她玩過後對飛行棋展示極大的興趣，我們最後贈送了飛行棋，待她入睡後享用杯麵晚餐。
One hour before arriving the destination, the cleaning lady will wake you up and ask you to take all the beddings to her laundry office at the end of the wagon, it was 6am when she called me.
火車到終站前一小時，清潔員會將所有人都弄醒，各人自覺歸還被套床單毛巾到清潔員在車廂前段的的工作間。
