Moscow, Russian Federation Travel Blogs

Expensive Comfort Food
Sep 25, 2008 (4 photos)

...  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 ...

Moscow
Sep 23, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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 sternly corrected her, " ...

Civil Liberties
Jul 22, 2006

... 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 ...

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

... Station in St. Petersburg I realized we were on our own.  We had the tickets for the overnight train to Moscow, but without knowing how to speak Russian or finding a Russian person who spoke English, it was quite a challenge to find the train we were ...

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)

... 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

... 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 ...

Arrival to Moscow
May 2, 2009

... recent swine flu breakout, 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. ...

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

... ;  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 ( ...

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

... of snow ice slush etc. Needless to say our journey was a white knuckle ride. We caught our train with plenty of time and settled into our compartment, this was to be our home for the next 4 nights and 3 days. Siberia and the Russian steppe awaits!

Kiev and Moscow
Sep 20, 2007

... should be starting a Aberdeen university today but missed his flight, and an English student finishing a phD about some obscure Russian painter. Because it costs over 4pound a pint to go out drinking the hostel reception has turned into a mini backpacker ...

STATION HOPPING
May 6, 2009 (10 photos)

... station worth visiting, namely Novoslobodskaya, Belarusskaya,  Prospekt Mira and Kievskaya. These stations have themes of Russian history, military glory, happy Soviet farmers, and beautiful Frescos, stainglass windows. Majority of the stations are ...

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

... Moscow, an overpriced hotel that we don't want to talk about. Highlight: The nightclubbing with the young of St Petersburg. Lowlight: Russian techno music. Return Trip: Try as I might, and with all respect to Russia, I can't think of an occasion when ...

Kremlin
May 3, 2009 (10 photos)

... that kind of frustrates me is that there aren't that many people who speaks English. I guess once I started the converstion in Russian, they just assume I am fluent and start talking really fast.  I still have to think to come up with words, let ...

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

... - quite an achievement and we received something similar to what we thought we had ordered! We finally went to the Russian Revolutionary museum after being guarenteed by the ticket clerk that it was "all in Russian and English" and spent about an hour ...

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

... ,bliny ( Russian crepe or pancake) yogart, bread, tea or coffee. Delicious and filling.    3) Russian officials are generally more difficult to deal with. Take example or the border guards between Russia and Estonia. Also the ...

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)

... firm who was able to interpret the left luggage procedure and we were then free to explore the city. Lee's advanced Russian and acrylic writing skills bought us our metro tickets R20 and we entered the Russian underworld. Our first station turned out ...

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

... through a tour so we asked at the same hotel who told us it was $100 each. Again imagine our response?! Went to the Russian tourist agency today to ask them about it (possibly not the best day after the UK spy story! See UK diplomats in Moscow spying ...

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)

... the Chelsea side is a blue and white checker board.  The opening ceremony is artistic at best, but gave the Russian hosts a chance to display their creativity and appreciation for the all-English match.  Before I know it, the whistle has ...

Baldwin to Moscow
May 13, 2004

... woken at 11pm by Nadia \handing out forms to full in for the Bel;arus border crossing. The forms wee long and in /russian and therefore impossible to understand. And if Yuri had not appeared and filled in Rene's, which we all copied we'd still be there ...

Day 4
Sep 18, 2006 (7 photos)

... many people at all speak English here, I got a Coke from a cafe and the woman asked me in English if I spoke any Russian after I replied "no", she just laughed! Getting back to the hostel my tactic of sitting in the lounge waiting to be invited out to ...

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

... behind this remarkably chauvinist chocolate bar, especially from the small woman with handbag symbol on the back panel. Apparently the Russian says something to the effect of "Too much chocolate and too many nuts for women. This product is for men ...

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 later. We are greeted by Marc's Russian friend, Dmitry, who he used to house ...

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

... everything 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 ...

Moscow
Jul 19, 2006 (11 photos)

... miles apart but I eventually found one! All in all, a day of constantly walking and aching legs. Nothing a few cheap strong (16%) Russian beers wont cure! Day 3: I headed down to see the tomb of Lenin. The queue for this was pretty long but luckily the ...

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

... stage. We learnt all about the role of the KGB (the initials KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, which is Russian for Committee for State Security), now known as FSB (Federal Security Bureau), and walked away with a better understanding ...

Red Square
Sep 23, 2008 (6 photos)

... that were forbidden inside.  We walked down into the tomb in complete darkness and silence, and along the path the Russian security guards impatiently snapped their fingers to nudge onlookers forward.  When we came up to Lenin, his face glowed in ...