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Culture Vultures
This is a top pick! ... have been per 100g or something. First major blow to the budget, anyway at least we can say we have eaten some authentic Russian cuisine, not just budget saving pastry. I had a stroganoff type thing and Erica a pork chop with mushrooms and an ...
Ice dodging
This is a top pick! Woke early to a bowl of free cereal in the hostel. Erica had the left over pancakes from the Russian pancake tasting on Friday night. They have evaporated milk on their pancakes !!! Erica edit: Not all the left over pancakes (though some of you might ...
ILLEGAL CUSTOMS CLEARANCES #4 AND #5 (RUSSIA TO R-
This is a top pick! ... voice a three-word sentence. The bordermen simply needed to record my information, since I was a foreigner. A bulky, but young, Russian soldier turned to my visa and began writing down the numbers on it. I'd made sure, using the ...
VLYUBLYONYY
This is a top pick! ... , and snow-faded-green paint on the walls. We sat on cushions around the low table. Nastia turned on some folkloric Russian music and smiled mysteriously. We ate seaweed salad on sandwich meat on bread. Although it was late, I ...
From Russia With Love
This is a top pick! ... a Swingers esque swing band playing live downstairs, and two rooms upstairs - a choice of horrible pop music or hardcore Russian techno (not technically music, more like an Industrial Revoloution happening in your head). As we're so northerly here, ...
Day 4
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Benzodiapine haze
This is a top pick! ... bits of Saint Petersburg, a few nights out, a great walking tour, the amazing summer palace, I think I even went on a date with a Russian girl but im pretty sure I fell asleep during it! I know it was a combination of the sleeping tablets, the beers or ...
Russia - final thoughts
This is a top pick! ... cultural, situational or both? Who knows... Anyway, I've waffled on enough but at the risk of regurgitating old cliches, Russian is a land of interesting contradiction and of dashed expectations. In a lot of cases that's not a bad thing, just ...
It Begins!
This is a top pick! We arrived safe and sound last night and on time. Got picked up from the airport and taken to our homestay not far from the centre of St Petersburg. Are staying with a widow called Irina who is very nice and cooks great food for us. Any attempt ...
Update from St Petersburg with photos!
This is a top pick! ... ) - narrowly avoided a major international incident when my towel fell off on the way to the shower! It feels a lot more genuine Russian experience than staying in one of the 5* hotels (yes I have to keep telliing Emma that!) Today is a lot warmer ...
Life in a queue (+ other stories in the big smoke)
This is a top pick! ... message 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 ...
the Paris of Siberia
This is a top pick! ... tone in proceeding paragraphs we did have a pretty good time here and are looking forward to future stops of our Russian itinerary (maybe not the upcoming 72 hour train ride however). Finally, we like to once again thank Stas the BaikalComplex ...
BARE-TOP MOUNTAIN
This is a top pick! The first place I went to in the Altai Mountains wasn't as pretty as the pictures which Alyona, the squiggly-eyed Bashkirk painter, drew of it. Handicapped by the fantastic, rather than natural, colors of her colored-pencil set, she scribbled blotches ...
SICK IN THE CITY
This is a top pick! ... my life, living far from the center. I get few things done; I still haven't found places to play basketball, soccer, "lapta" (Russian baseball), nor to ballroom-dance; I can't really go to nightclubs; my friends are far away. I don't think I'm ...
8 hours with your legs crossed
This is a top pick! ... the train to check our paperwork and passports, they helped us add a few things to the forms by pointing and talking in Russian. We also established that they wanted our customs form from the Mongolia-China border but we were not given a copy. Mongolian ...
A NEW YEAR, ...
This is a top pick! ... 's face and who loves joking and giggling, wore a viking's bra, blond pigtails, and a viking's helmet. She played me in Russian Scrabble, while we ate. Russian tradition also states that your next year will go similarly to how you enter it. ...
St Petersburg and Moscow
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Living in a Squat
This is a top pick! ... to walk to our hostel Zimmer Frie. We'd booked this and our Moscow accommodation back in August as part of getting our Russian Visas. In Moscow we'd stayed at a place called Godzillaz. Godzillaz was great and we'd recommend it to anyone. Now, Zimmer Frie ...
Domes, dead bodies and downpours
This is a top pick! ... train. Well, I say Waitrose, it was the closest thing to a supermarket that we have been able to find!!!! We managed to find some great delicacies...Russian pot noodles, Russian biscuits, Russian Bread (but it was out of date so we put it back!) and some ...
Welcome to Moscow - "School Day"
This is a top pick! ... system, 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 ...
Day 9
This is a top pick! ... the ages 20-30. There is a good section of older western tourists too around retirement age, and the rest of the passengers are Russian and Chinese people going about their business. Nobody gets on or off at the stations we pass, though lots will depart ...
A.S.E.: TEACH (PART II)
This is a top pick! ... told about it. Two young rockers proudly showed photo's of their band. Blond, plain-looking Aleksei - whose hobby is Russian baseball, "lapta" - showed a photo he'd taken with a friend, when they'd climbed a ski-jump in winter to capture their ...
Ballet and all in St. Petersburg
This is a top pick! ... us a few hours of precious sleep before the walking tour scheduled for the morning. Our guide was a lovely, young Russian girl with a wealth of knowledge. Her walking tour was actually so informative that we felt we've seen the entire city ...
A WALK AROUND TOMSK
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; This old book has drawings of 19th Century Peterburgians on its thick spine, and the square letters of the Russian alphabet are convenient for a serious and straight-forward story-telling. The novel's characters had strengths and weaknesses, ...
We have now officially left Europe (for 11 months)
This is a top pick! ... of where we went today) - Is where Boris Yeltsin came from and started his political career - Is where the Romanovs (Russian monarchy/tsars) were in exile and later killed during the revolution in 1918. Most things here have some Romanovian ...
Trans Siberia, Moscow-Irkutsk-Day 1, Off we go
This is a top pick! The night on the train was kind of hard, the bed in the train is far from comfortable and for me very narrow. Luckily it was just long enough for me to fit in. This train, train number 2, is supposed to be a luxurious one. And that kind of worries me. ...
Slept Like a Baby
This is a top pick! We slept like babies on the train as we didn't have to worry about anything with the door locked. We missed seeing the white Europe-Asia Border Obelisk outside of Kungur, but who figured we'd miss spotting a snow covered white monument in the middle of ...
Fashion Victims
This is a top pick! ... Martyr Grand Princess Yelisaveta Fyodorovna. To the side was a cool "ice church" made of large blocks of ice and the Russian Orthodox Church of Blood. Eventually we headed back to the hotel and finally picked up our train tickets from the elusive Guide ...
Gold Fountains !!!
This is a top pick! ... one, even at the airport, bus, train station knows any English. When I ask them, do you understand English politely in Russian, they automatically says no and respond in Russian. My few Russian words and knowing the Cryillic alphabets did get me a ...
Day 3
This is a top pick! ... meant Russia! We'd already got our Russian visas checked out at the Poland-Belarus border so there were no such formalities here. A Russian Officer came and stood outside our cabin for an age, I wondered whether he wanted to see my passport, but as we ...