Across Moldova Book

Colin writes well, but he's a bit of a cold fish. He doesn't ever seem to do anything fun (only once does he take a young woman out for dinner). And so Siberia seems really boring. Perhaps it is? Colin gets involved in religions, goes to underfunded museums and archeological sites, and visits prison camps and mines where thousands died. That's Colin on his holidays. But it's not like there isn't fun stuff happening around him … he passes several Opera Houses. Couldn't he have caught a show? Someone mentions a festival; that Jewish-town-that's-no-longer-Jewish was having a concert. I also thought he could have talked to a few of the Chinese people. They may not be Siberian, but they are there. But perhaps they were having too much of a good time for Colin?