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Kiev and Moscow
Sep 20, 2007
"Ukraine and Russia, two countries that 20years ago were part of the communist USSR but now seem so different. We were a little scared about going to Kiev after are guidebook wrote ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
baileyandkerry
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Mother Russia...
Sep 3, 2007
(8 photos)
"Welcome to Mother Russia.....get out your roubles.... We definately ran out of time in Mongolia. Great place and so much to see and do, especially out in the country side. For us t ..."
A travel blog entry from Irkutsk by
siandcath
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Day 3
Sep 17, 2006
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"Belarus is a very poor looking country with peasant farmers working the land and looking generally unhappy. The next morning we were woken by more banging on the door but it wasn't ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
poolman99
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Ra Ra Rasputin
May 28, 2006
(23 photos)
"Well, Russia and more specifically St Petersburg. As I said in the previous entry, actually getting to Russia was something neither Kat nor I expected to achieve in our wildest dre ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
natandkat
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Russia!...St Petersburg
Jul 15, 2006
(9 photos)
"Well after many months planning, what was first just a pipe dream is now reality, I've started my trip! It was a bit daunting getting off the plane, not being able to speak to the ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
roadtrip
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8 hours with your legs crossed
Jan 13, 2006
"We had a good nights sleep and were woken the next morning by the provodnista. The train had reached the Mongolia-Russia border and we had to climb down from our top bunks. We were ..."
A travel blog entry from Naushki by
eatdessertfirst
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Welcome to Moscow - "School Day"
Sep 1, 2006
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"After getting slightly lost on the subway system, everything is challenging when it is written in Cyrillic, It was time to catch up with the Hock and start the Russian festivities. ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
catters
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The Man Who Sold The World
Jul 15, 2006
""We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend Which came as some surprise, I spoke into his eyes I thought you died alone, a ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
foolsgold
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Trans-Sib Part One
May 31, 2006
"The train station was massive in its confusing chaos of Chinese travellers pushing their way to their trains while foreign tourists stared in wonder at signs that seemed to contrad ..."
A travel blog entry from Irkutsk by
bootsmade4wlkin
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The trans-mongolian route. 48hrs.
Jun 9, 2005
(7 photos)
"Okay, well after two days on a train that went through a desert I was definately ready to get off this train. Mongolia was a beautiful country, and I wish we could have spent some ..."
A travel blog entry from Irkutsk by
surgeongeneral
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Lake Baikal
Aug 7, 2005
"Well, I'm officially in Siberia! Irkutsk is a lovely little city (600,000 bods) sitting at the gateway to Lake Baikal (the deepest lake in the world and contains 1/5 of the worlds ..."
A travel blog entry from Irkutsk by
susan_g
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St Petersburg and Moscow
Aug 26, 2005
(12 photos)
"An early morning start and we on our way by train from Helsinki to St Petersburg. Russian border control is as strict as ever and we eventually make it into St Petersburg 6 hours l ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg and Moscow by
marc-patty
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Mother Russia
Jun 28, 2005
(8 photos)
"Day two of our big trip. Still as green as a green thing and being in Moscow, capital of Russia, made us feel as though we were just on a weekend city break! An interesting city, w ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
pidgeandpie
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Hello Mockba
Jun 2, 2005
(5 photos)
"We caught the overnight sleeper Down from St P's, very comfy. I had to surpress my giggles at the Americans when they talked about going to 'Moss Cow', mind you, who am I to say an ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
irax
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Russian to St Petersburg
Mar 6, 2005
(3 photos)
"March 6th. We landed mid afternoon to a somewhat chilly welcome -6 degrees with an overcast sky and almost straight away made our first (of many) embarrassing cock-ups...we were su ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
meandher
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Moscow Russia
Sep 2, 2004
(14 photos)
"Well after an interesting experience travelling with some bossy boots old Russian hag and two women (mother and daughter from Siberia) both of whom had pushed their way in front of ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
martinandheike
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First taste of Russia
Jul 1, 2005
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"Our train from Ulaan Baatar was the longest train ride we have taken, mainly because the train sat for 9 hours at the border towns in Mongolia and Russia and then stopped at every ..."
A travel blog entry from Irkutsk by
mightylongway
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Baffleopoly
Mar 3, 2004
(8 photos)
"Well we've arrived in Russia and everything is going great. We are currently in the Hermitage museum and feeling a bit exhausted from all the walking so are just taking a break. St ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
siscri
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The Vodka train to Vodka Land!
Aug 4, 2005
(21 photos)
"Zdrasvichitye! Tache Ticker: sadly I think it's now Russian defence policy to have all their troops cleanly shaven. So all the border guards had baby faces, as have all the hundred ..."
A travel blog entry from Lake Baikal by
bonkers
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Baldwin to Moscow
May 13, 2004
"Leaving day appeared on the horizon then hurtled towards us like a speeding train and we only just managed to jump aboard. John and Sue (Rene's mum and dad) had moved out of their ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
leeandcathy
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From Russia with Rain
Jul 1, 2005
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"We're back!! Yes, after 5 months of settling back into a 'normal' life and coming to the conclusion that something is definitely missing we are back on the road again, well sort of ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
kevandsian
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Greetings from Russia
Jun 10, 2003
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"Hello everyone I made it safely to Moscow yesterday, although it was a long day. I got about one hour of sleep on Sunday night and had to get up at 3.00am to go to the airport. I w ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
hils
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Customs day and Naushki
May 19, 2005
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"The train was decent. Mongolia gave us a beautiful farewell sunset. I shared my compartment with a mother-daughter pair, Janet and Ruth. We chatted until about mi ..."
A travel blog entry from Naushki by
descoth
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It's Been emotional
Feb 13, 2006
"It's been emotional The dacy started according to plan. Well apart from the 2 hour nose bleed that I sustained during the night. But I wasn't about to let that spoil things. After ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
ashermj
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Finally in Vladivostok
Apr 16, 2006
"All well here. We were greeted by our translator and coordinators. They are GREAT! I felt so gross meeting them when I had not had a shower for 2 days. They were so sweet about it, ..."
A travel blog entry from Vladivostok by
heidig
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Somewhere over Russia...
May 20, 2006
(2 photos)
"Technology's great isn't it... Just over 11km above sea level, travelling at around about 900km/h and for just 5 USD per hour we're connected to the internet! No real point in us w ..."
A travel blog entry from Kharkov by
carocal
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Russian Roulette
Mar 10, 2008
(20 photos)
" Arrived in St Petersberg, managing to get past the extremly unfriendly, unwelcoming and notoriously inhospitable Russian border guards (and without an invotation letter) and it al ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersberg by
markwilliams84
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St. Petersburg
Oct 23, 2005
(11 photos)
"Brad: Founded by Peter the Great as his 'window to the west', St. Petersburg is the most European of Russia's cities and the perfect place to ease ourselves into 3 weeks in the wor ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
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The sights of Moscow
Jun 26, 2007
(5 photos)
"Monday, June 25, 2007 Well we finally began some major sightseeing today and it was pretty incredible. Moscow is a beautiful city and we have been able to see ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
tenvols
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Goodbye China, Hello Siberia
Jun 1, 2007
(6 photos)
"If only I had followed John Collier's wise words in his comments to my last blog and blogged at a more frequent interval and I might not be kicking myself now at hav ..."
A travel blog entry from Irkutsk by
sjones123
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Hermitage & Hospitals
Apr 30, 2008
(9 photos)
"Our first day was spent seeing the Mayday parade and walking up Nevski Prospect to the Hermitage, which was free, since it was the first Thursday of the month. It was wonderful to ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersberg by
jenshaw
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St. Petersburg
Aug 12, 2003
(29 photos)
"This was a once-in-a-lifetime visit to see Russia. We left the ship early in the morning to begin on an all day tour of the city. One funny theme throughout the day was ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
exploreamerica
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From Russia With Love
Aug 3, 2006
(6 photos)
"Wednesday, August 2, 2006 Moscow, Russia 11:00pm The flight from Frankfurt to Moscow is 2.5 hours. Added to the 7.5 hours of flying time from Chicago to Frankfurt, Moscow is just a ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
wareameye
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St. Petersburg
Jul 18, 2007
"Good start to the day with brekker in bed on the train and arrive in St Petersburg at 9am, met by a local guide Olga who was a cocky little cow and had a bus tour of the city til m ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
danskgirl
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Mother Russia
Feb 2, 2007
(13 photos)
"Hey everybody... Well I've made it to Russia... Our hostel is rather out of the way, but easy to get to by metro... It's called the Metro Tour Hostel and apparently it's where all ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
papayaprincess
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Two Days in Russia
Jun 25, 2007
(16 photos)
"Entry into Russia is strictly controlled and you must be part of an escorted tour or else submit a detailed tourist visa application that inquires about your profession, special sk ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
ambough
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Russia at last
Aug 18, 2006
(15 photos)
"I'll add more text later, but I got some nice pictures attached of Ulan Ude and the town of Goryachinsk next to Ulan Ude. ..."
A travel blog entry from Ulan Ude by
cjabroad
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Moscow, be nice to me!
Mar 7, 2008
(4 photos)
"My life in Moscow, early March 2008 By now I have visited Moscow five times and spent here altogether over 2 months. I am not sure in what phase of the infamous culture shock I am ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
cimbalnikova
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Thailand to Moscow, and an 11hr stopover!
Jan 8, 2006
(5 photos)
"...so we got a taxi from the Shangri La first thing in the morning and made our way to Departures. After a short check-in, we had an hour or so to buy lunch (at KFC as we couldn't ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
geileskey
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Winter impressions
Feb 22, 2006
(11 photos)
"Even though I'm from Finland and used to riding my bike to school with temperatures beyond -20 c as a child, I must say that winter in Russia is something else. As we lived by the ..."
A travel blog entry from St.Petersburg by
carita
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Communist Era Train Travel
Sep 2, 2007
(78 photos)
"Bonjour a tous, Nous sommes arrives il y a 4 jours de ca, a St Peterbourg apres 24 heures de train depuis Kiev. A l epoque du regime communiste on pouvait voyager de Kiev a St ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
laurantim
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Moscow, first place to visit
Aug 10, 2007
(58 photos)
"Hi all, A quick story about us and Moscow: Friday 10-08 Early in the morning we were at the Barajas airport to take our flight to Moscow and at 10.00 am we are leaving Madrid thou ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
perez_r
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lennujaam
Jun 29, 2007
"Moskva lennukile tundub olevat suur tung, istun põrandal ja tutvun LP kaudu UlanBaatari vaatamisväärsustega. Lennukis minu kõrvale sattunud venelased räägivad millegipärast püüdlik ..."
A travel blog entry from Moskva by
nipitiri
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I Made It to Russia!
Jun 7, 2007
"Well, here I am in St. Petersburg, safe and sound. The trip almost started off poorly though. I was sitting at my gate in the Philadelphia airport, listening to my iPod ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
alexp02
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East bound and down..........
Feb 20, 2007
(5 photos)
"My ten days in Moscow is coming to an end. Tonight I hop in the Trans-Siberian for a seven day 7865km (4876mile) train ride to Beijing. I've spent my time(and my budget) here slipp ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
nbuene
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Moscow at last!
Jan 27, 2008
"Landed in Dubai for at about 6:30am local time for a three hour stopover - flight to Moscow scheduled to depart at 9:30am. Various people had told us about how great Dubai airport ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
winston
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From Russia With Love
Aug 30, 2008
(3 photos)
"Thanks to Peter the Great, we all have St Petersburg to enjoy, and what an easy city to enjoy!!! St Petersburg is an absolutely delightful city. The position on the Riv ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
fifoota
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The Beauty of Lake Baikal
Aug 22, 2006
(31 photos)
"Listvyanka, Russia The train arrived into the largest city and capital of Siberia, Irkutsk, at around 8AM. The sunrise over the Siberian steppes was an inspirational introduction t ..."
A travel blog entry from Listvyanka by
globetrekker
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Arriving in Russia
Sep 14, 1997
"Arriving at Zurich, 'taking a nap' at the waiting area, then taking SwissAir 490 to Moscow. We arrived at Moscow at 3:40 pm local time . Finally, it's SwissAir!! The plane ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
whk2006
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A Dominican Chick in Russia
Jan 26, 2002
(5 photos)
"DOSVIDANYA MOSKVA I visited Moscow for 4 years in a row due to this small matter of a Russian ex-husband. Some of the highlights include New Years Eve in Red Square, visiting the b ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
semi-backpacker
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New Year's in Lipetsk (near Moscow)
Jan 1, 2004
"New Years was in Lipetsk, a town near Moscow. After the countdown and the amateur fire-works competition (from various windows of flats, including ours), ~15 of us Zatsepins all hu ..."
A travel blog entry from Lipetsk by
nadushka
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Dah... I've made it to Mockva!
Aug 30, 2006
(19 photos)
"Prevet! Hello and greetings! I've officially been in Moscow for a week. And it's been quite the week adjusting to living and working here. One of my goals this year was to live in ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
sweatybetty
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Mother Russia
May 9, 2007
"We made it to Russia, and I was actually quite disappointed how easy it was. We hopped on a train in Helsinki. After 5 1/2 hours we were in St Petersburg. The border was actually q ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
barthdkk
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Lovely luscious Leningrad
Mar 30, 2007
(18 photos)
"DAY 1 Right, so after our charming stop-off in Riga we land in St Petersburg (we made the trip in a cool little plane with propellers! Propellers I tells ya!), customs passes with ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
mr_awesome
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St Petersburg
Jun 29, 2006
(2 photos)
"St Petersburg was the highlight of the cruise, where we spent two days visiting the Resurrection Church of the Spilled Blood, Peterhof palace and fountains, and the Hermitage. At t ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
grom
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wie man sich zum deppen macht....
Aug 9, 2005
"dobrij djen zusammen, hier der naechste teil der erlebnisse im wilden osten: sonntag fuhren wir zum kloster sergeiev posad. das sah so aus, dass wir zunaechst 20 min zur naechsten ..."
A travel blog entry from Moskau by
tina
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De Contradicties van Moskou
Jul 4, 2006
(8 photos)
"Communisme en Kapitalisme - Rijkdom en Armoede - Pracht en Afschuw - Vriendelijkheid en Sjagrijn De busrit naar Moskou viel veel beter mee dan de vorige. De bus zat maar halfvol, d ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
wijleweg
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In ze Motherland
Dec 11, 2007
"Escaping the Fatherland, I arrived in the Motherland. As my plane touched down, the theme song from "Įīšąņ" (Borat) was playing in my head, as I observed the field of stationary pl ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
erinkoval
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A Day in My Life in Russia
Oct 18, 2005
(5 photos)
"Hey Everyone, It seemed to me that creating this travel blog would be a better way for you all to access pictures and updates from me. It has definitely been a life changing experi ..."
A travel blog entry from Nizhny Novgorod by
amyewest
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Lost in translation!
Jul 18, 2006
(30 photos)
"Hooray! End of our first day and as you can see we're living it up and going wild in an internet cafe. We only logged on to see how much things are in Roubles and how to speak the ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
aaronnbeth
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St Petersburg
Sep 29, 2006
(2 photos)
"Hi, My very first entry. On Friday the 29th September I left the UK to start my adventure. My first flight was from Heathrow to St Petersburg. Matt very kindly dropped me off at Br ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
amandaroberts79
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Russian Palaces
Jul 18, 2006
(18 photos)
"The city that made us take this cruise, St. Petersburg. We spent two full days here and we signed up for the biggest tour - 9.5 hours each day! Since we're young and wanted to capt ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
scott_and_amy
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We arrive at Moscow and make the show
May 6, 2006
"We have arrived at Moscow safely but without our luggage. Apparently, our luggage didn't come with us to Moscow. After filing a lost luggage report with the airport, we proceeded o ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
firetalon
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DeGaulle - Thorsen - Boatman
Sep 13, 2007
(3 photos)
"Whether modern with lots of fun duty free shops and distractions or old with uncomfortable seats and the lingering scent of cigarettes, all International airports are the same stra ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
boatubia
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St. Petersburg
Aug 12, 2003
(29 photos)
"This was a once-in-a-lifetime visit to see Russia. We left the ship early in the morning to begin on an all day tour of the city. One funny theme throughout the day was ..."
A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by
exploreamerica
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After a FULL day in St Petersburg
Jul 21, 2006
(4 photos)
"After an early breakfast, we walked up and down Nevsky Prospect, which is a major road in St. Petersburg with a number of tourist attractions nearby. We stopped by several places a ..."
A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by
eugineanded
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Catching up...
Sep 29, 2007
"Russia. What is there to say? The most miserable people I met, hard to get them to smile, and if they did, they where probably laughing AT you, not with you. Moscow undergroun ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
lisa.wengel
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First destination : Moscow
Jan 1, 2008
"Home From Home hostel - Moskova - 010108 "A day after.." Taalta se sitten alkoi: 16 kuukautta odotettu Aasian seikkailu. Saavuimme junalla Moskovaan 29.12.07 aamusta ja n ..."
A travel blog entry from Moscow by
ilari
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