Slept in quite late, had breakfast, and was then out the door to try to find a replacement spare Kevlar folding bicycle tire.
Luckily, I had written down the locations of a good bicycle store chain throughout Russia and Samara was one of them! Found the bike shop and bought a replacement tire with a pretty flat tread and three extra tubes (I had destroyed two of the on the sidewall blowout a few days ago...) Headed into the city center and walked around the Kubishevsk square and then 'happened to find' an Irish bar and stopped for a few pints and a solid Irish lunch. Continued walking around and happened upon the beer factory. More importantly, I happened upon the beer dispensing shop that sold 'factory direct' suds for 90c/Liter! Many people were lining up with 5L jugs, by I bought a more modest 1.5L container to fill. Walked down to the water front and hopped on a water taxi that was headed across to the Samaraskaya Lesa park on the right bank.
Met up with Gulya down by the water, and walked around a little bit more before heading back to north to her flat. We had bought some crabs down by the beer area, so we stopped for some more seafood and made some delicious seafood pasta!
Settled in a watched the final House MD episode of the year (cliffhanger!) before grabbing some much needed shuteye.
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