Суб 14 Апрель : 23 километра пешком вокруг аэропорта Шереметьево

Суб 14 Апрель : 23 километра пешком вокруг аэропорта Шереметьево, чтобы посмотреть, что там происходит. Место и время встречи : М. Речнои вокзал (в центре зала) 11.00. Приносить напитки и еду.
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If you missed it, here's what happened (скоро на русском)

We met with Dima and Lina at Rechnoi Vaxhal metro station at 11, bought a bit of food, juice and water and went for the bus. Half an hour later we were at Sheremtevo 2 and started to walk at 12h10. After a look at the map -actually a print from google earth- we decide to go clockwise in order to start with the “wildest” part consisting of forest and fields. We quickly understand that the google earth photo is in fact not very recent and what was a building site a few years ago is now a hotel just as the woods we intended to go through that now are a huge building site themselves. In order not to cross the building site we go a bit farther south and walk along it through the woods. Very dirty at the beginning it gets better a few hundred meters later. The sound of the planes is already quite loud and mixes itself with the birds. There is quite a contradiction about being in the woods and hearing such a sound. It just doesn’t go and gives a strange atmosphere the place. To our right, at the end of the building site there is now a pretty huge mountain of dirt that adds to the feeling of weirdness. We all think about Tarkowski’s Stalker. After a while, the woods stop brutally and what used to be a field used for agriculture (it looks so on the picture) is now a huge field of water and dirt, a bit like I imagine Verdun looked like during the first world war. There is a track that crosses it where trucks carry dirt from another dirt field further on to the building site behind us. We follow the track until the end and turn right. We approach the western end of the tracks. Planes are taking off on this side and the sounds keeps getting louder. We decide to have lunch there right under the planes. The wind had changed already and they were now landing which made them easier to see. After a quick lunch we resumed our walk to find to our great surprise that some people had made their garden at the end of the other track. Small sheds and well ordered lines of vegetables. There is also a small table, a teapot, a water reserve… There are about 6 or 7 of them and no village in view. Planespotters?

The next 3 kilometres are along the main road. Not very interesting except for a pack of Lipton ice tea 2 litres bottles that must have fallen from a truck. The consumption date is August 2008 so we decide to take a couple, not that we like it but… Further on,  the pilot’s school and then the terminal 1 of the airport where we abandon the ice tea foe someone who either likes it or needs it. Dima often flies from there for his work and knows a place where they sell cheap cognac. A quick drink and a look at the map: there seems to be a plane cemetery a couple of kilometres east. We decide to give it a try… On that side of the airport there is nearly a small town, a few buildings and old factories. We follow a disused railway track for a couple hundred meters, visit a small burnt building that apparently was a bathroom for some workers -Stalker again- and back to the woods. These woods are a bit more difficult to cross than the ones we started with; the soil is soaked and there are lots of really young elastics trees that keep lashing our face. After half an hour we eventually see the tail of an airplane: the plane cemetery. It’s difficult to see much as the fence is actually a wall but there are about 5 planes, all with the soviet’s union flag and a couple of big warehouse in the back. We decide to go around it. It takes us about 40 minutes to reach to road that we will follow back to the Terminal 2. If on the northern side it was all pretty much abandoned on the southern there are building sites everywhere. Here a parking lot, there a hostel or a petrol station… The few old buildings that can be seen apparently won’t last much. To our right, the cargo zone with a brand new church (?!), parking lots and restricted areas. A couple of kilometres more and we reach our starting point at 6h30, happy and even a bit tanned… that was a good walk!

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[Ton Thon]

Les potiers de la plaine.
Les potiers moches.
Les complètements potiers.

[Ton Thon]

Did Cedric mean aircraft spotters, or planes potters ?

[Gd père]

J'ai essayé ..et reessayé sur les traces de Ton Thon ..sans succés .Je n'en sais pas plus sur tes activités Nous invitons Claude à déchiffrer le russe