Russia Travel Blogs

Expensive comfort food is how I describe my dining experience in Russia.  After walking through the extravagant palaces and museums, sitting down and ordering a meal was dull and bland in comparison.  I welcomed the warm and hearty ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by hiwhthi
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... a lot of Russian military people marching and gather near the bus station, may be they there doing drills, I just stand far away.  Russia in general still feels like a police state, plenty of military folks walking around, safe but yet quite scary.

A travel blog entry from Suzdal by andrewy
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... tell how faithful it was to the original but it was so huge and immense that I didn't question it as the largest cathedral in Russia.   By late afternoon our van made its way through start and stop traffic to bring us to our hotel.  It was a ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by hiwhthi
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The quintessential experience of travelling in St. Petersburg is to walk down Nevskiy Prospekt, the main boulevard lined with outrageously ornate buildings and breathe the car exhaust and cigarette smoke from people passing by.  As I observed the ...

A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by hiwhthi
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Hi everyone,       Today I head out of Moscow to visit Sergiev Posad. This the origin of the Russian Orthodoxy founded by St. Sergius of Radonezh in 1340 , and the pilgrims still travel to this place to pay homage to St. ...

A travel blog entry from Sergiyev Posad by andrewy
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We had the second day in St. Petersburg to ourselves, so Kathie and I decided to see the Peter and Paul Fortress.  We took the bus to the Hermitage and walked across two bridges over two branches of the Neva River to get to Hare's Island where the ...

A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by hiwhthi
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... sight of the fact it looks like it's used as an overflow car park whenever the fair's in town. No offence meant to Russia you understand. Just a little different to Lonely Planet's "One of the most breathtaking sights in the world" - the only way a visit ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by foolsgold
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... past their sell by date. Still. Food's food. The landscape thus far had been rather dull. Cutting through the middle of Russia, we were met with a variation on the theme of trees and fields. Flat, characterless, and completely devoid of charm. This, of ...

A travel blog entry from Novosibirsk by foolsgold
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... the tour guide's attention to translating his conversations with his date, and with all the fascinating events that happened in Russia's history his only interest was regarding the city's water supply because that was his line of work in Ohio. Sorena ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by hiwhthi
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So what have we done since we last blogged. We started the next day with a heartily dodgy breakfast of egg and bulgar wheat, where we met a couple of our traveling companions, and then set off into town. Went up St Issacs cathedral and checked out the ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by emmaandemma
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... , and all the staff wore shirts and ties. The produce on sale was all imported from everywhere in the world apart from Russia. A jar of pickled broccoli with brown paper wrapped around the lid cost five pounds. A big jar of mixed pickles cost two hundred ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by foolsgold
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... in shock from the night before, but I turn it off to share a great conversation with Sam, who has been living in Russia for 9 years now.  Working for a political/economic think tank, he has a very thoughtful insider insight to offer and I enjoy the ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by madman96
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"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to..." - The Fellowship of the Ring The day dawned ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by foolsgold
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... internet, I am logging in late.        To much surprise, I imgained the  flight into Russia will be difficult due to the recent swine flu breakout, it turn out to be much smoother than I thought.  My flight ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by andrewy
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(alternatively titled: "Absolute chaos") Having a good place to work is important. So ... I was already working in a university in September, when I walked into a high school, trying to add a less-serious teaching job to my schedule.  "Nam ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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On September 28th, due to irreconciliable differences (that had caused me, and probably the unversity, a lot of stress), I and the university where I'd been working parted ways.  They paid me for the month.  So, now I had no jobs.  But, I ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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While residing in my scary, wooden house, I hear two of DDT's Russian rock songs ringing in my mind. They're off the band's creative 1992 album, "Eto Vse".  (The album's title song is probably my new favorite song.) In the third song, "Chetire ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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Somewhere on Tomsk's main Lenina Street, right between the universities, on a quiet street-corner lawn with shallow snow, illuminated by the golden globes of a merry street lamp, sits a single-story, wintry green, wooden house that's been there since the ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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... other again and keep in touch.   Five days.   Two thousand kilometers.  I crossed flat European Russia, and survived.  I saw green fields, towns of wooden homes, and colonies of summer cottages with private gardens.  ...

A travel blog entry from Lake Trugoyak, Chelyabinskaya Oblast by modernoddyseus
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DDT - like grooving, mellow, soul-howling Soda Stereo from Argentina, and (without the romantic positivity) Guns N' Roses from rough Los Angeles - seem to me to be incapable of playing a bad note. While in Tomsk, I learned they'd be playing in ...

A travel blog entry from Novosibirsk by modernoddyseus
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Although singing isn't one of my favorite things to do (at this time), I was looking forward to the "Enjoy English Songs" competition on December 18th.  Tomskunkian high schoolers would be singing; not I, thank god.  I would be the "zure" (a ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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Siberians like to converse an awful lot.  Too much, if you ask me.  It's a relief when they just sing and dance. In mid-December, they and I danced the Moscovian "kadril", a pretty cool dance. At the "Bal Puteshestnikov" (Travelers' Ball), ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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Hi Everybody,       Today I head on the the outer skirt of the  city to see some of the other famous sites here in Moscow. The first place I went is Novodevichy Convent and Cemetary. I was surprised that the convent is ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by andrewy
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I wake up early on my last day in Moscow and head to the Armory to finally see the Faberge Eggs.  I get there and they haven't opened yet so I grab some breakfast nearby.  By the time I get back there is a line 200 hundred deep and I decide that ...

A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by madman96
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Upon close consultation with a map, I learned that Bare-Top Mountain's highest point was 2647 m. (8686 ft.) above sea-level. And it wasn't where I'd thought it was. My butt and upper thighs were light-pink from two hours of nude alpine exploring. My butt ...

A travel blog entry from Ust-Kumir, Resp. Altai by modernoddyseus
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... , who doesn't like to be alone, had felt sad about me being alone in Staryy Oskol.  And Elina's ex-boyfriend in Russia, Mancho, was threatening her and had punched her in the face. I felt sad that Elina wasn't succeeding and I couldn't help her. ...

A travel blog entry from Staryy Oskol, Belgorodskaya Oblast by modernoddyseus
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... and now it's happy!  Here are The Top 5 Best Things About Siberia!* (* - with help from European Russia) 1. WOODEN HOMES 2. THE ALTAI MOUNTAINS 3. DOSTOYEVSKY AND TURGENYEV - Dostoyevsky really understood people.  Turgenyev's simple ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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... learn that George Bush is here in town for tomorrow's G8 Summit. We were unaware that it was happening here, and now, or that Russia had the presidency for it, but it's all good. The police and army presence in the streets is ridiculous. As we walked ...

A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by foolsgold
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... during our guiuded tour we had most of them pointed out to us along with a basic history lesson our guide joked that Russia had an 'uncertain past'(rather than future) as there are so many different versions of it...his parents were surprised when he told ...

A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by meandher
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After we finished our lunch of meat-filled pastries, our tour guide Albina led us on to the second half of our day through the Hermitage.     The entrance to the Hermitage was at the Winter Palace building, from the side facing the ...

A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by hiwhthi
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