Moscow, Russia Travel Blogs

Expensive Comfort Food
Sep 25, 2008 (4 photos)

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 ...

Moscow
Sep 23, 2008 (10 photos)

... days before.     As our van sped from one site to the next within the crowded metropolis, I saw that Moscow was still dominated by relics from the Communist era.   It was almost impossible to ignore the over-sized "Seven Sisters ...

Civil Liberties
Jul 22, 2006

... 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 ...

Overnight train to Moscow
Sep 23, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

Lenin had a big brain and Stalin loved his mum
Jan 24, 2009 (9 photos)

... the pie that followed was even better. Didn't do much for the rest of the day and then got the midnight train to Moscow! Arrived at 8 yesterday morning and checked into our beautiful hostel which is as good as the accomodation is going to get for a ...

Red Car Park... I Mean Square
Jul 23, 2006 (14 photos)

... , because I ran out of time messing around uploading the photos. I'm sure we'll be back with yet more mean-spirited digs at Moscow tomorrow as t'internet is cheap and air-conditioned. And then you'll have to survive a whole week without our updates as we ...

How do you follow that up? Still on cloud 9!
May 22, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

Trans-Mongolian Express: Day 1
Jul 25, 2006 (3 photos)

... all our stress and worry, we got to the station two hours early. As we stood in the light rain (a final farewell from Moscow), we watched the pantomine of drunks being led away by police only to return five minutes later and thought about who we would ...

Arrival to Moscow
May 2, 2009

... Miao from Taiwan who is studying here. Miao took me around the area to the grocery store and metro station. She also mentioned that Moscow is quite unsafe better avoid ging out at night. We had a nice chat over some take out dinner at home and call it the ...

Moscow - The advanture continues
May 4, 2009 (12 photos)

... too much.  As I exit the teatre, I saw this massive military parade down Tverskaya Ulitsa, the largest boulvard in Moscow toward the Kremlin. As I asked some the bystanders, I found out this the day when Russian celebrated their end of WWII defeating ...

I Moscow and cool off
Mar 10, 2005 (4 photos)

... city centre..they appeared to be gearing up for a visit from the olympic committee and signs and hoardings were being erected everywhere'Moscow 2012. We passed the town hall which had been moved when the road was widened by Stalin (in fact much of the ...

Kiev and Moscow
Sep 20, 2007

... well as about 8 people preparing for a 5 day journey there is a Nigerian footballer recently signed for Lokomotive Moscow, a German who should be starting a Aberdeen university today but missed his flight, and an English student finishing a phD ...

STATION HOPPING
May 6, 2009 (10 photos)

... ;went to the famous pedestrian walking street called Arabat Ulitsa on the west side of Kremlin. This is the most famous street in Moscow and a favorite hang out for Moscow artists and alikes. There are plenty of cafes, yes Starbucks and Mc Cafe, all over ...

Europe..... A Retrospective
Jul 24, 2006

... all of the 'New Three' (Lithuania and Latvia too), and get to know them and the differences. Definitely worth a return. Russia (St Petersburg, Moscow) Hostels: Sleep Cheap in St Petersburg - a very hard to find (when you see that dark alley just take ...

Kremlin
May 3, 2009 (10 photos)

... stores like Louie Vutton, Mc Donald's, Sbarro, 7 11 and more. Red square is filled with tourists, interestingly predominately from Russia , taking photos.  My first stop is St. Basil cathedral, the most important landmark of Russian ( like our statue ...

Still in Moscow (with some pics)
Jan 25, 2006 (4 photos)

... an hour looking around for the English! Back home to watch the news and quench Emma's thirst for the weather forecast - a bit like a reverse version of the fast shows "Scorchio" sketch, with most places in Russia being somewhere between -5 and -35!

Moscow again and soem FINAL thoughts....
May 21, 2009

... kids from Uzbekistan, that after waited for 30+ minutes, they were told to goto another line else where.    Moscow airport is interesting that SMOKING is permitted everywhere.  Wow, just walking from restaurant to the VIP lounge, I saw ...

Day 5
Sep 19, 2006 (5 photos)

The mission today was getting my Trans-Mongolian train ticket from the agency it was waiting for me at. That agency is in a suburb south of the river in a non-touristy area. I found it pretty easily and felt good about paying local price (200 pounds) for ...

Baldwin to Moscow Part 2
May 16, 2004 (10 photos)

... then slowly moved forward again. We had a game of scrabble of John and Alice and Cathy was victor. As we approached Moscow the villages became larger, better built and more colourful. On the outskirts of Moscow the houses turned more basic but were ...

Update from the spies in Moskva!
Jan 24, 2006 (1 photos)

... attempting to be asleep as there was hot air blasting through the carriage - talk about extremes in temperature! Arrived on time in Moscow Mon morning just before 8 to be met by a local guide to take us by metro to our homestay which was an interesting ...

Welcome to Mother Russia!
May 20, 2008 (14 photos)

I arrive in Moscow in the late afternoon to an email saying that Victor isn't actually in Moscow right now but that I can stay with his girlfriend and her mother just the same.  I still have limited options as the one family friend doesn't get to ...

Man U vs. Chelsea in the Champions League Finals!!
May 21, 2008 (15 photos)

I wake up nice and early and head out on the city with one mission: get tickets to the game!  I hit up the Red square and kremlin area asking anyone who sounds or looks British if they have extra tickets while making sure I'm always out of earshot of ...

Baldwin to Moscow
May 13, 2004

... surface in the time we had. But it was a good scratch\. With a few supplies in hand and tired feet we boarded the Berlin to Moscow Express. It takes just under 48 hours and we left Berlin at 13.30. The train is a real work horse, it's basic but clean. ...

Day 4
Sep 18, 2006 (7 photos)

... two new uniformed guards. Back in my room I met two English girls who strangely already knew of my plans to go Moscow-Beijing. Hostels are great for talking about your journeys plans etc with fellow travellers, so it's no suprise when they talk about ...

Life in a queue (+ other stories in the big smoke)
Jan 4, 2006 (24 photos)

... on the back for all involved for hanging in there to the end. Next entry -> More of Moscow Great Brands of the World - Russia Crapdogs is just one of those unfortunate brands that looks hilarious from the perspective of another language. Even ...

St Petersburg and Moscow
Aug 26, 2005 (12 photos)

... it made us slightly concerned about how safe the place is. However, if you can avoid the pickpockets, the metro in Moscow is a treasure in itself. Every station has been individually designed and some of them are decorated with statues, paintings, unusual ...

Welcome to Moscow - "School Day"
Sep 1, 2006 (1 photos)

... is challenging when it is written in Cyrillic, It was time to catch up with the Hock and start the Russian festivities. Moscow itself was an awesome place, so much history, so different from anywhere i have ever been. The buildings a mixture or ...

Moscow
Jul 19, 2006 (11 photos)

... to Kremlin, not that I particulary wanted to go there, but because 'I should'. I guess it would be stupid to leave Moscow without checking out Kremlin. I got student discount in (150ruples) but then everywhere else inside you have to pay extra. It was ...

KGB: Still Watching You
Jan 21, 2006 (22 photos)

... the gardens. They did not look impressed! I guess they didn't expect it to be quite so cold on their wedding day considering Russia is having it's coldest weather for 80 years. We ducked into another shopping centre to warm up again (we're learning the ...

Red Square
Sep 23, 2008 (6 photos)

... Red Square with the ghosts of Stalin and the people he killed. Inside the Kremlin Ivan the Terrible is buried in the Russia's holiest church, Archangel Cathedral.  St. Basil's Cathedral is considered a landmark of Moscow, and as a reward to the ...