Moscow Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

We changed our plans at the Swedish port; instead of getting the ferry to Turku, we decided to pay extra to get to Helsinki so that we could sleep for longer. But we still had ages to wait until we could board. How about going on a sightseeing tour? No way, not for the price of an arm and a leg at least. So we wondered into town to find some gru...

Moscow We left St Petersburg on a train - a very smart train at that, sharing our 4-bed cabin with a Russian gentleman, who immediately after leaving changed into his pajamas and slippers in preparation for the journey. Then began an interesting sleep with a lot of snoring and sneezing (I have soon realized that this is going to be very common o...

(from train to Tallinn, Estonia) After nearly four months, I'm leaving Moscow in my dust. It looks like I managed to survive a winter that defeated the likes of Napoleon and Hitler, I didn't commit feline-homicide (which could be punishable by death in rogue states like Russia, who knows), and my lungs have taken in just about enough smog to las...

Today on my adventures I went out to the Izmailovo market - I was told it was a huge touristy market, so I went searching for a scarf. Every Russian woman seems to have a huge, wide, long woolen scarf - kind of like a pashmina, but usually with really nice patterns. I felt a bit left out, so went to find one. It turned out to be a really strange...

Today is our final day in Moscow and also in Europe. I am writing this in the Moscow lounge, waiting for our redeye flight to Bangkok. Ed and I decided to visit the Izmailov Park this morning as our final sight seeing thing for Moscow. The park has a huge lake and an estate where Peter the Great used to spend his childhood summers. Apparently it...