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Vladivostok Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Vladivostok, Russian Federation
TSR (Part II)
... figure out ferries, which I’ll get into in a later entry, we headed out to our hostel. The time in Vladivostok slipped by fairly uneventfully. We gratefully used the opportunity to do our laundry, we met some fun people and spent some ...
DIAMOND PRINCESS – DAY 8
Yesterday we pulled into Vladivostok for the day but I decided to stay on board. Nothing appealing about Russia and when everyone came back on board they said much the same. Nothing to buy, nothing to see but at least, unusually for Russia, ...
РЖД (RZhD), My Friend!
... the biggest network that a single country on this planet has ever built and operated. All except for my last trip was on precise time (the Irkutsk to Vladivostok train somehow lost three hours - must have been while I was sleeping, or was that singing!). ...
Gestation Period: One Month, Three Days
... to find) was spectacular, with 360 degree views of the winding and convolute bays of the Primoyre peninsular (on which Vladivostok - 750,000 population - sprawls) and the multitude of islands, tapering off into the southern and eastern horizons. A mist ...
DIAMOND PRINCESS – 16/05/2011 – DAY 10
OK children, the lesson today is what happens when you cross the International Dateline (as, apparently, we did today). This is the official explanation as written in today's "Daily Patter", our daily paper. “As we pass the International ...
Depart en bateau
Depart pour le Japon.... 21 heures pour rejoindre la Coree du Sud puis 15 heures vers le ...
DIAMOND PRINCESS – 15/05/2011 - DAY 9
DIAMOND PRINCESS – 15/05/2011 - DAY 9 Three days since we were last ashore with six more to go before we reach Seward in Alaska on Friday, 2146 nautical miles away. It makes me wonder why the first explorers to sail these seas ever bothered. ...
Apres plus de 60 heures de train
Me voici rendu au terme de l'etape transsiberien apres 9 138 km parcourus en train en 6 jours et 2 heures. Le plus long parcours au monde !! Ce fut une experience fantastique et la 3eme classe malgre son manque de confort reste une excellente maniere de ...
Visite de Vladivostok
4 jours de detente a Vladivostok avant de prendre la mer pour le Japon Tres belle ville (la San Francisco russe) et ambiance de bord de mer tres agreable... La moins "sovietisee" des villes que j'ai pu traverser ...
Jon becomes a Russian delivery driver
... yard in the hills back of town waiting for our container to be ready. But not until Barb had been roundly scolded both in Russian and English by hotel management for dripping fuel and water right in front of the hotel entry – I think the hotel ...
How we are handling the delays
We are all doing ok, in greater and lesser degrees. Lana's doing the best, which I am very relieved about. She's spending her time colouring in, drawing, and creating stories with her favourite tuatara and Vladimir's colourful lizard. ...
Surviving expressive eyebrows and native boxes!
... were on a mission to reach Siverwind and start the unpredictable (read stressful) process of producing an inventory to suit multiple Russian Parties It was all about the Box. After phone calls to Yuri and discussion with other parties it would appear ...
Russian quirks
I thought I would create an entry where we can list all those small things you notice that make life just that little bit Russian over here. We will add to this list as we go. 1. The "close door" buttons in the lifts actually work 2. At large signalized ...
Game on! Getting serious with officialdom
... of humour! While we were at the shop, Amanda found EXACTLY the present for her mum :) hehehehe and bought an awesome little Russian guide to animals. Day 2. We all went down to SilverWind's office to find the container has now been taken off the ...
Wow, we are actually here!
Hi all. Just a quick note to let you all know we are all here, safe, and mostly in one piece. The Korean Air transfer was a model of efficiency. However the same cannot be said for the comfort in the plane. As Jon and Amanda were just coming out of ...
The next two days in Vlad
... to the hungry tennis players, they cleaned the place out! We've got people from all over, including Germans, Singaporeans, some Russian girls who look like Kournikova, and a large North Korean contingent. Our explorations on Wednesday took us to Gutov's ...
Power washes and souvenirs
... Jon to a different car wash, which turned out to be next door to his workplace across town. The chaotic traffic in Vladivostok takes on a new meaning when following a turbo Landcruiser driven by a mad Russian off roader! He popped a U turn in ...
Back to Customs
... it appears) and would we be able to take some personal items over. Sure we said. I think our containers passage through Russian systems is going to be smooth. So after this meeting we discovered that all our paper work was done and all we had ...
Arriving in Vlad :)
... a massive bulldozer. The plane stops. We all stand up, and then wait for about 5 minutes. We get to the front door, and a robust Russian lady wearing a red uniform aims a green light at my chest. Ah, checking my temperature to see if I have the flu. Down ...
WE HAVE OUR TRUCKS!!!!!!
Hooray! At 1130 am today we called Silverwind to find that the container had been unloaded and we were to proceed to the Port post haste to meet Anton to collect our trucks. So Barb, Jon and Jim hot footed it down to the wharf in a cab to... guess ...
Responses to blog comments
... doll!! I will put a photo of her up here later today :) Jon: To Mark and Martin who also took ages to get their bikes in Vladivostok. Anytime you feel the urge to ship your GS's to Australia, look us up. We would be keen to provide a support pick up for ...
Barb and Jim's excellent adventure
... of there. The fuel system warning light was on again. The trip was now a 3,000 km or so dash back to Vladivostok along the bitumen with hopefully, some good camp sites. 400km saw us past Ulan Ude in gloomy conditions in a spooky ...
Back to Vladivostok!
... , at the Hotel Azimut. Can't wait for that buffet breakfast tomorrow morning. Distance travelled 209km Total distance from Vladivostok 10,304km UPDATE ON BARB AND JIM Spent the night on the River Tomm near Belagorsk after chasing storms with hail ...
Lana's second story - still in Vladivostok
... a handbag with rainbow dots on it, in a shoe shop. There was a pair of shoes to match. I've been watching some Russian television. My favorite show is a show called "Funny English"! It teaches Russian children English, it is quite funny. The best ...
Martin and Mark head off on their adventure
The two bikers from England, Mark and Martin, head off this morning! Their bikes arrived a few days ago, after they'd been waiting for almost a month. They've been great to hang around, full of entertaining stories. They're off to ride their BMW ...
After months of planning.... Disappointment
... to help others. Australian freight forwarder including packing container and trucking to the port AUD 1300 Shipping Brisbane to Vladivostok 40 foot container AUD 4200 Vlad terminal commission AUD 150 Vlad customs inspection AUD 250 Vlad terminal fee for ...
Port Managers and Potential Progress - tomorrow!
... holding folders of important documents. The same heavy blokes with their weight lifter physiques wandered around giving brief Russian handshakes to their colleagues. We waited outside the deputy port managers office for another hour. Then we were ...
All together again
... from Ussurisk is so bad that having a fast vehicle makes no difference. It is how you can weave through the infamous Vladivostok traffic and roadworks. They covered the 300 km in something like 7 hours. Jon managed to navigate Jim back to the ...
The Russian Way
... post they like to wear impossibly high heels. Even the young lass clearing our plates at breakfast was teetering on heels. Vladivostok has a frontier town feel to it, and the well dressed residents almost seem incongruous. But one thing must be said, ...
Off home
... hotel without any water. This seems to happen fairly regularly, and there is no warning given. A note appears at reception (in Russian only) which provides the time when the water will be turned back on. And - being in Russia - do you think ...