Sunday a group of international students, including myself went on a little day trip to Lake Peipsi, a lake that sits right between Russia and Estonia. we took about an hour bus ride to a small village on the Lake and walked around for an hour or so. The lake was completely frozen, at least a foot thick! Because it was a Sunday, there were no shops or restaurants open, and surprisingly three churches we tried to get into were closed for the day! On a Sunday! The Village houses were very old and antique looking, but beautiful nonetheless. People were driving on the ice with snowmobiles and even cars, it was crazy! I took this picture because I saw it and thought it was neat....
When we walked out on the lake, in a distance, we saw many people ice fishing. So we walked up to a couple of young kids who were fishing and carving holes in the ice. The fish were small, about only three or four inches long! But they had a whole bucket full, I can't even imagine them getting enough meat off of the tiny things! It was really cool to see how ice fishing works. Then we walked out further into the lake to what looked like an island, but I believe it was just frozen ice that had built up and was covered with feet of snow. I took a picture of the view from the top....
After walking the lake for a while, we decided to walk to another "nearby" village to find a cafe or somewhere to warm up. What I thought was going to be a short walk, turned into something like a 5km walk that took us around 2 hours, in the FREEZING cold! It was really cool to see all the different houses, but the walk and the cold were almost unbearable. The bus stop we were trying to find was in the next village but the walk in between the two villages took so long! Finally and with twenty minutes to spare we made it to the bus stop. The freaky thing was that if we would have missed that bus we would have no way of getting back to Tartu because that bus was on its last run! I was so relieved when we made it to the bus stop and even more when the bus came, warmth!! I would say, however, despite the unbearable weather Lake Peipsi was gorgeous and it was totally worth the cold walk to have been able to see the frozen lake.
To end the day we went to a Russian restaurant where I had the most delicious meal I have had thus far. It was a breaded and fried chicken with a chanterelle mushroom and bacon cream sauce and potatoes of course. It was magnificent, so rich with flavor! It really reminded me of something that we would make at the Chateau for a dinner, something delicious and fancy :) On Wednesday this week we are having an international food night, where everyone who wants to can make a dish that is popular in their country. I will report back what stood out the most and tasted the best!
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