Kazakhstan beer

We have been partaking of the local brew for the last few days. It actually isn’t bad.

Perhaps the coolest thing we’ve seen is the pull top beer cap:

Pictures of Petropavlovsk

I haven’t posted a lot of pictures of the city of Petropavlovsk so far so here are a bunch to catch me up.

The one thing that might not come out in the photos is how dirty the streets are – there is mud everywhere. It is no wonder the locals always wear black. Anything else and you’d be changing clothes multiple times a day. I was pretty amazed about the mud actually. Even where there are proper curbs and sidewalks there is nothing growing in the boulevard except some weeds or random grass. For the most part it is just dirt – or when it rains mud.

They do have street sweepers out all over the place right now sweeping up the dirt. It really doesn’t help….

Found the wood playground…sort of

We had heard rumor of a wooden playground towards the end of Constitution Street (the pedestrian walk down the middle of the city) so this morning we set off to find it. There are a lot of playgrounds in Petro but they tend towards rusted metal installed over mud so we’ve been avoiding them so far and sticking to the indoor variety. This time we were hoping for a more modern style playground for Sam to play on.

We did end up finding it way down at the end of the street (about a 30 minute walk from the hotel – GPS: 54.873641,69.123852) but unfortunately it didn’t turn out to be anything that Sam could really play on. As you can see from the pictures it wasn’t exactly what you could call safe. So we are still searching for a decent playground.

Found a chocolate shop

We found a pretty good chocolate shop today and loaded up on sugar. It is right across from the bakery I posted about a few days ago (GPS: 54.866002, 69.142828‎). Worth a stop in if you have a sweet tooth.