Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets)

C'est Masha qui nous heberge a Nijny Novgorod. Visage rond et pose, cheveux tirant sur le roux, quelque chose dans le temperament flegmatique et le sourire triste qui rappelle la Finlande. Pour la remercier de la delicieuse soupe aux champignons ...

... is to serve as a "museum"....hm. Anyway, other than that, we saw the neighboring church inside the Kremlin and everything else inside the walls of the Russian fortress. On Sunday we went to see a monastery about 40 minutes outside of Kazan. It was ...

3rd biggest city in Russia, I see my first McDonalds, nice kremlin here as well ...

Three hours driving on fairly good highways in rain and shine put us at the Kremlin in Novgorod...and the restaurant Detinets (inside the Kremlin), where we had the good fortune to time our mid-day meal with that of several tour groups...and were able to ...

... insane… INSANE! I don't even know where to begin, so I guess we’ll just proceed chronologically. The Novgorod trip last weekend was fantastic, incredibly fantastic. We hopped on the bus Saturday morning at 7am and drove through the outskirts ...

The overnight train from Moscow pulled into Novgorod at about 6am. We hopped into a taxi to the hotel from the train station. The cab was a typical russian old school taxi with a scary looking man behind the wheel. It was still dark and with the rain ...

Novgorod Well Moscow was quite an adventure. I think that we did quite well since we stayed at an apartment at the end of the metro line. The apartment had no telephne and we had no cell phone. We did not speak nor understand the language (or even ...

... incense, I hadn't realised their services involved quite so much prostrating and impossibly deep-voiced chanting. Beyond these areas, though, Novgorod seemed to be more typically russia. Industrial, grey and with people that never smile. I got a few ...

... we remembered of the old Soviet Union as the prosperity has not reached beyond the very big cities.  Novgorod is the oldest of the Russian cities with a Kremlin (or Detinets) , or fortress surrounding the old area.   The first walls were built ...

... a while to find the hotel. It was a bit difficult to orientate as the city is very mountainous. Not many backpackers visit Nizhny Novgorod; therefore there is no hostel as such so we had to stay in a hotel that was much more expensive than hostels. The ...