Rally Day 16

"The floor of the hut was of hard black dirt. Outside the squiggly streets of Tyumen were either mud or dust according to the season. Lining the squiggles were horrid wooden huts. Sometimes wild pigs would rage into town and bite children to death...it was not a setting to sing about". Irving Berlin - born in Tyumen where the rally has now arrived.

I can imagine the squiggly streets and wooden huts Berlin describes because the villages along the way are just the same today.