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Day 2
Sep 16, 2006
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"7 o'clock came and I managed to get into the shower and get ready for our arrival in Berlin. I had to scramble through my notes and figure out which station I needed out of the fou ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
poolman99
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Liza et al.
May 7, 2008
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"We have arrived in Minsk on the overnight train from St. Petersberg. As we pulled into the station we were met by Liza, her grandmother, Nastia - who speaks English and Katia's mot ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
jenshaw
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Travel To Minsk Belarus
Dec 24, 2006
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"A trip to Belarus is like a trip to a very different world. Belarus still clings to the Soviet past and while it is progressing, it is not progressing at the pace of neighboring co ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
travelswise
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We leave the West behind...
Aug 15, 2007
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"A nudge, a slight jolt, almost imperceptibly we started to gain the momentum necessary to move the Moskva Expres away from Berlin Hauptbahnhof Track #12. Soon we gained speed ..."
A travel blog entry from Brest by
chop49
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Belarus
Sep 18, 2006
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"The train passed through Belarus, where we hardly saw any people all day, just endless fields and forests. ..."
A travel blog entry from Brest by
leon1974
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Ah, my old friend bureaucracy
Oct 25, 2006
"We had an exhausting tour of the dug-up streets as we headed into badly lit basement of a local police station to complete the ritualistic process of 'passport registration'. With ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
nachtlicht
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The quintessential Soviet 'Hero City'
Aug 24, 2007
"So what should one expect visiting what is arguably Europe's most closed country? An obscure nation with no previous historical experience of independence that's now ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
xerius
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Minsk
May 31, 2006
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"I spent the day in Minsk: Lukashenko's communist stronghold. Fortunately no anti-government riots today. I felt like about the only tourist around and no one anywhere seemed to spe ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
danwstephens
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Belarus 101
Sep 22, 2007
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"Before I came on this trip, I knew virtually nothing about the country of Belarus. If you had asked me, I probably would have said it was part of Russia. It's not. I'm assuming my ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
kally563
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Belarus - Minsk and Brest
May 25, 2008
"Our last day in Vilnius was spent visiting the controversial "Stalin World" - a Soviet themed park with lots of statues torn down during the last days of communism in Lithuania. Un ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
mattgavin
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Minsk
Aug 30, 2006
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"Minsk was incredibly sterile and clean compared to Russia. It was also pissing down with rain so it wasn't very pleasant. We did manage to have a look through the GUM department st ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
aussiecaitlin
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One night in Belarus
Aug 25, 2005
"Long day on the bus getting into Belarus. Had a brief city tour of Minsk which is the capital of Belarus and the city had a very different feel to it then any of the cities we visi ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
redemption2005
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Somewhere in Belarus...
Aug 6, 2007
"Half an hour or so after I wrote that last entry, the fun really began. I ordered a Bockwurst (is this part of the fun? I'm not sure...) and boarded my train to Moscow. A few minut ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
iamalemur
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on to little piter..
Aug 17, 2007
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"The next day was blurred at the edges, 4am passport checks, gauges on the train were changed (although I slept through it) and a lengthy halt at Minsk in 35 degree heat was require ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
jhnhtt
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Vitebsk , Belarus
Aug 18, 2005
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"Day 16 - 18 August 2005 Belarus is one of the last country that has gained independence from the Soviet Union. We had to apply entry visa to pass by the country as it is the shorte ..."
A travel blog entry from Vitebsk by
florencetravel
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Minsk, Weißrussland
Oct 21, 2006
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"Die Fahrt zum Flughafen Moskau dauert länger (1,5 Std.) als der Flug nach Minsk (1 Std.) Die Moskauer Stadtverwaltung scheint nur ein Verkehrskonzept zu haben: Mehr Strassen. Und j ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
volodya
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Mixing it up in Minsk
Sep 6, 1999
"Our last night in Russia was in a little town called Smolensk. We basically just prepared for Anne Marie's (our tour leader) birthday tomorrow, as we were giving her a party and ha ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
raniroo
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Fortress of Brest
Jul 20, 2006
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"Brest's Fortress is famous for the courage defense during the first days of German attack on Soviet Union during the World War II. Many huge monuments impressed very much. As well ..."
A travel blog entry from Brest by
miki_83
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Leaving Poland
Sep 18, 2007
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"T: In Brest we were allowed to stroll in the station for over an hour while waiting for the change of the wheels in our train. Trails in Russian's trains differ from the Europ ..."
A travel blog entry from Brest by
tomek1000
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Yartsevo to Minsk
Jun 29, 2007
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"This morning when we got up most people were in rough shape, although by some strange twist of fate I wasn't feeling too bad. After breakfast we all got on the bus and went to a ch ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
eltanner
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Brest
Sep 22, 2007
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A travel blog entry from Brest by
mies
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Robbed
May 1, 2004
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"May 1, 2004 somewhere in Poland / somewhere in White-Russia After we all started waking up a little the Danish guy discovered that all his money and papers had disappeared. After s ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
bolletjeom
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Welcome to Minsk!
Sep 23, 2007
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"Good news- today I arrived safely to Minsk, Belarus. It was a pretty uneventful day since 90% of my time was spent on airplanes. On my second flight, I got to meet Dr. ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
green
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On the loose in Belarus
Sep 21, 2006
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"And so to Minsk, capital of the oddest country in Europe - mostly glow-in-the-dark radioactive from the Chernobyl disaster, it is ruled with an iron rod by a communist dictator cal ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
kate1979
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Belarus
Dec 16, 2007
"We got on the train at Warsaw, were not able to get any money at the station (the machine spat out our card) for food or water. There was no dining car on the train, the journey wa ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
cazandkings
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Minsk, Glorious Minsk
Jul 21, 2008
"Hello everyone, Well me and Pete made it safely into Belarus after a lenghty night train. Minsk is not what i expected, everything is so clean its unbelievable!!! (its probably due ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
mark.wilson
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Minsk - Belarus
Jun 17, 2006
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"We started early in the morning in Vilnius, Lithuania, were we all studied. We went by train to Minsk. As soon as we arrived a man came to us and asked us where we are from, what w ..."
A travel blog entry from Minsk by
tilman
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