It is Saturday afternoon now and we have just cleaned the apartment. Today is our day off and we plan to go to the beach. Vladivostok is surrounded by the ocean, but in the city itself the water is pretty polluted, it even has a sign ; no swimming (which doesn’t mean anything here in Russia). But there is part of a beach about 40 min drive from here, where it is quite nice – but every one else with a car thinks the same thing – so it is usually quite crowded. But even that I do not mind, since I am sweating, just sitting in front of my faithful pink apple laptop.