Ужас! Horror!

One of the most unpleasant memories of Solovki is associated with the Prichal hotel. Let's start with the fact that at the time of checking into the hotel, the foreigners brought with us by transfer simply refused to settle and left. For 10 days of our stay there, it seems that no one was there except for us. The breakfasts offered to us at a neighboring camp site (I don’t remember the name) consisted of porridge (as nasty as in the pioneer camp), a piece of suspicious sausage and waffles. My (then future) husband, Swiss by nationality, left hungry. We found a way out - we bought food for breakfast in the village store, since I prudently took the boiler, we had a delicious breakfast in this way on the terrace in front of the entrance. Peat water in this Pier is a separate song. I laughed for a very long time when I read that her skin and hair are getting better. After washing, there is a feeling that you become even dirtier, the hair does not comb at all !!! ! Girls will understand me, what mood, if you constantly feel sticky dirty hair. After a week of our stay, the girls-administrators agreed with someone and they let us wash in the "Putin's hotel" - a house nearby, where VV lived during his visit to Solovki in 2002 (? ). This house was empty and there was no light. It was possible to wash after 6 pm, we washed in the dark, but with normal water - once in 10 days !!! ! The mattresses on the beds in this hotel are practically non-existent or as thick as a blanket. We were given an extra, since the hotel was empty, but it did not change the feeling - it was very tough! From the center of the village to the hotel is a 40-minute walk. I do not advise anyone to get sick on Solovki, there is no pharmacy or it does not work. I had an attack of cystitis - in the village hospital they are not familiar with such a disease, as well as with the word chloramphenicol.