Russian Federation Travel Blogs

...  my stomach after coming in from the cold.  The next few meals I tried to check off my list the typical Russian foods I needed to try - Stroganoff, Borscht, ravioli-dumplings, meat-filled pastries, herring and caviar.  I tried them all with ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by hiwhthi
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... here. The Alexandrovsky church, intercession, and Assumption cathedral are also here.       I had a dinner in a Russian restaurant, salad, borsch and head on back to my home stay. It is very interesting to see a lot of Russian ...

A travel blog entry from Suzdal by andrewy
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... ; Later, as we walked down the Arbat one of Moscow's famous shopping streets, Kathie grilled Alexi about everything from the new Russian millionaires to the cost of real estate in Moscow.  When Kathie asked about Putin's election, Alexi leaned in and ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by hiwhthi
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... detailed mosaic patterns.  It stood apart from the European-inspired buildings because the onion domes gave the church a distinctly Russian identity and the steeply pointed windows added a Persian flair.  Looking up at the jumble of shapes they ...

A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by hiwhthi
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... Russian Royal family had been collecting treasure from around the world since the 1800's. But after the fall of the Russian monarchy, the Bosheviks subsequently the current Russian government took over and museum. It now houses over 3 million items and ...

A travel blog entry from Saint Petersburg by andrewy
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... a different story. First I have to navigate my way through the train station and then figuring out what my ticket says in Russian. Although I know the Cryillic alphabet, the ticket just don't say what platform it leaves at and the right platform says the ...

A travel blog entry from Sergiyev Posad by andrewy
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... to visit friend but fell of his bike and broke his arm, thus he is in a cast. He told me that he spoke Russian, Ukrainian, Moldovan and Romanian, but no English, thus our conversation stops here, my Russian is too limited. He started laughing when I told ...

A travel blog entry from Saint Petersburg by andrewy
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... was another stunning architectural interior.  While the colors and details directed my eyes upward, my proximity to the greatest Russian leaders brought my attention back to the floor.  The tsars were arranged on both sides of the cathedral and ...

A travel blog entry from St. Petersburg by hiwhthi
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... in the most expensive city in Europe in an overpriced hotel watching poor American movies that have been dubbed over in Russian without removing the original soundtrack. So if you really concentrate, you can separate the loud Russian from the quiet English ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by foolsgold
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"Another glorious day on the train. A day on the train is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet, every mile a pleasure. I love the train!" By day three, I had started to forget how much time we'd spent on the train. We didn't have things like ...

A travel blog entry from Novosibirsk by foolsgold
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... flew from his home in Cleveland, Ohio to meet her in person in Russia, after chatting online for a month.  He spoke no Russian and she spoke a few words in English, and as they sat next to each other in silence it was painfully clear that there was ...

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 opening sealed pistachio nuts with his teeth, watching The Bourne Identity on a tiny telly with bad reception, with a Russian translation shouting over the dialogue. We are certainly living the highlife. Today we went out to get you wonderful ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by foolsgold
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I sleep off the night before finally arising around 1 to do a walking tour of the city which gives me a much better idea of the city above ground.  I meet up with Sam Green, the grandson of one of my grandma's best friends.  We go on a walk ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by madman96
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... with. There was a scale, it was decided, from 1 to 10. A 4, 5 and 6 would be variations on the theme of a Russian family who pretty much ignored us for the entire journey - perhaps an old Matriach mothering us slightly, or a son practising English on us ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by foolsgold
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... , it turn out to be much smoother than I thought.  My flight arrived in Moscow without any delay, the stewardess were wonderful, the Russian customs was as smooth as I can imagine and even the Home stay lady showed up on time. So I was able to make it ...

A travel blog entry from Moscow by andrewy
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... .  He confidently knew he could pound any of his classmate's heads into the ground.  He asked, always in Russian, if I really enjoyed traveling. I mentioned my love for Colombia.  Furry Pasha mentioned, "narkotiky."  Furry Pasha and ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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... many disappointments.  I have little energy to go on.  But ... I'm still going on. My time with classic Russian literature, I'm happy to say, recently yielded a golden gem.  Anton Pavlovich Chexov's short story, "The Sixth Ward," is a ...

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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... is scary.  They drive low, sharp-edged cars, many with tinted windows, and many with two or three guys inside.  Many Russian have shaven heads.  3. The roads are in poor condition and slow.  4. There are a lot of ticks this year, and ...

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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... nbsp;Then, I was handed a sheet of paper, on which were written the names of five criteria.  These square-lettered Russian names were long and impossible to decipher.  With Ludmila's help, I simplified them to: "Musical Talent", "Appropriateness ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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... , twirled around one another, exchanged partners as we twirled, and began anew.  "Clap!"  Our toes hit the floor.  Quick, Russian music played. We also danced: a polka, in which we men danced with two women - one on each side - and were ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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... ;  For the evening, I decided to catch the famous Russian ballet, since most of tickets already sold out, I settled for a Russian show, quite boring, basically fell asleep the whole time. the 4 actors and actresses just yap the whole way in Russian ( ...

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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... !) and giggled. But, our two-hour ride was a jolly one.  I felt a little overmatched, speaking and joking in Russian, while pinned up against the window, but these were good people, so I spoke to the student about literature, and pretended to dance ...

A travel blog entry from Staryy Oskol, Belgorodskaya Oblast by modernoddyseus
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... - A female teacher at my Tomskottish school said, "Our men are weak.  It's our women who are strong." These days, Russian males primarily like to play computer games and/or drink when they're not making money. 5. OLD PEOPLE WORKING - In Soviet ...

A travel blog entry from Tomsk by modernoddyseus
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... leave the country.... Could have been worse though - one bloke got chucked off the bus and marched away amidst lots of shouting in Russian. We were the only non-Russian or Estonians on the bus and nobody spoke English so we have no idea what the guy had ...

A travel blog entry from St Petersburg by foolsgold
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