, Veliky Ustyug
Veliky Ustyug from 3 to 5 January 2013.2 adults and 2 children 6 and 12 years old. Railway tickets bought themselves for 45 days through the Internet och. difficult: 2 minutes after the start of the sale, there are seats left, all wholesale agencies are buying up. We went through the Veliko Ustyug Travel Bureau (vupb), booked everything ourselves somewhere in the middle of November. The work of the agency Satisfied: we met in Yadrikha by car, after 50 minutes we were in Ustyug; clean, warm, with a choir. renovated kopeck piece (they wanted to live in an apartment, not in a hotel) on the outskirts (to the center, walking 30 minutes or 70 rubles by taxi around the city : )). Polite and patient guide, interesting tour. program, focused largely on children, enough free time. In the city center we moved from one to another museum on foot for 5-10 minutes, you can fall behind and join the group at any time. Pts city. I liked it (the children even wanted to buy a small house here), clean, tidy, cozy, the roads even around schools and kindergartens were cleaned (although everything is closed for the holidays), the snow is white even along the roads (they cleaned their shoes from Moscow dirt there), icicles hang (probably for beauty), 2-floor houses with stucco or carved wooden shutters (beauty), the local population is calm, not boorish (pleasant), they fed very good. modestly, but not hungry, they left full. Visited companies. shop is black. silver, bought flax, rolled on cheesecakes. Pts. lucky with the weather: it was -3C against the usual -25C. Everything connected with the village of Moroz is bad - and the post office (a large sweaty room with crowds of people and a guided tour sucked from the finger), and Father Frost's Estate. : an endless stream of tourist groups, on the path of fairy tales (and in the tower too) a tale. heroes dressed in choir. the costumes rattled their text, made riddles, joked, and answered them themselves, without waiting for the children to answer, because once upon a time there was a trail behind them. group, we didn’t even have time to photograph anything on the run, we were strongly escorted further (it’s a shame for the children, for the expected and unhappy feeling of a fairy tale). The territory of the Votchina is large and beautiful, coniferous forest, ice figurines (lit in the evening), but there is nowhere to bask, except for the tower (if you break through) and the winter garden (there is a sauna). There is only one toilet (try to find one) and not free for everyone, 70 people lined up to ride on the stove (why not turn a couple of gazelles into a stove? ), The slide was closed. Despite the ordered time of our group in the tower, we waited for half an hour. People (private tourists) are fighting to get into the tower of the village of Moroz, as a result of which 8 more people were added to our group and it became 30. Such a number of people does not fit in any room in the tower, so whoever did not have time in the forefront, nothing did not hear (and there is nothing to listen to). It is amazing that among the 8 adults who joined, there was only 1 child, the rest of the 40-year-old aunts and uncles actively and in the forefront were photographed hugging the snowmen against the background of the book of good deeds! Neither in the tower, nor in the winter garden, nor in other museums of the patrimony are there locker rooms, so everyone was lathered and disheveled, hats and mittens fell from their hands. In the tower there is also a conveyor - a trace breathes in the back. group, and the previous one has not left yet, everything is fast and crumpled. And where is the fairy tale? ! Santa Claus was seen for 15 minutes (family photo for memory). Why is everyone screwed up? ! Ustyug is being promoted as the homeland of the Russian Santa Claus, the whole country is rushing, and such crap! Shameful, shameful, shameful! Again, one goal is to make money, it doesn’t matter that people like us won’t return there, the country is big, the people are hiding everything! On top of this “miracle” at 18.30, the lights were turned off throughout the Votchina, it caught up with my daughter, sorry, in the toilet (although my daughter even liked it, happy! ). Dear Santa Claus, you should not be friends with Grandfather Shishk, Owl and b. Yaga, and with an electrician, you see, there would be a backup generator! We don't care, we stayed at Votchina for 5.5 hours. and this is enough, but the people standing in line and dreaming of touching the fairy tale remained standing outside the gate. Friends lived on Votchina for 20 tons. r per person, and not in the city (adults - 10t. r. per person, children - 9t. r. per person - for everything except railway tickets) and they said that there was nothing to do on the patrimony, etc. frost sits in the tower, we saw him for 15 minutes, it would be better to climb the museums in the city. The last half day we walked around the city, at 9 pm the car took us to the station in Kotlas - all without overlaps and disappointments. Thank you VUP!