Moscow
Travel Blogs from Moscow, Russian Federation
Moscow: Stopover
... with BO in the process... nice! The train was a great thing to do but by the end we both had had enough. The Russian countryside is very sparse and all looks the same after a while. The temperature was extremely uncomfortable as well - a display ...
Moscow Environment
Environment Starting with the air - on some days unbreatheable. It reminds me of Beijing or Pxing Yao in China where you can brush off dust from your shoulders after half an hours on the street. Here we see in on our white Mac computers when we open the ...
People
... at all. I have seen very few children here in these two months, I think they are all out of the centre in the outskirts of Moscow. In the metro, the passengers age starts at 18 or 19, I don't know where the rest of the population is. Now in winter ...
Da svi da ni ya, Comrades..!
... also holds a map on which the town of Aberystwyth is prominently shown. Although I think that I explained in somewhat faltering Russian to my hosts that this was where I was brought up, I was a bit dissapointed that no discount of any kind on ...
Kellies Birthday!
A cheap bottle of beer and our 'glad rags' on we headed into town to enjoy a bit of 'russian culture' for Kellies birthday... arrived back in the hostel 6.30am enough said. Though we ruled the dance floor all night. 4 hours later time to drag our sorry ...
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Stick a Fork In Us - WE ARE DONE!!!
... ; Whew! What an interesting last couple of days. We had a great trip on the train overnight from Penza to Moscow. Before I go further, I had to add this picture of the boys sleeping last night, here in Moscow - it cracks us ...
More notes on Moscow
JUDY: Some observations on Moscow and our experience here: Accommodations in Moscow are so expensive that multiple families may live in one apartment. At the same time, everyone is very generous in helping each other out. Olga had ...
Repeat: I will not overstay my visa...
... , I have managed to get this far in life without getting inked. Catch 11:00 PM train to Helsinki. After chatting with my Russian carriage mates, two guys and a girl in their 20s all heading to Europe to pick fruit for their summer vacations, the ...
2nd Day in Moscow / 2ter Tag Moskau
... sleeping into the day I went directly to a place to grap some lunch: Bolschtsch and some meat-rice-balls. Looked like typical russian. Tour: - Inside Kremlin - Bolshoi-Theatre: tried to find it for a while. When found, I realised that there was a ...
From Russia With Love
... update will be when I get back to Irkutsk on the 4th Sept. Speak to you then. Well, as Pat Murray says, Moscow........ Love Karen xx Oh, almost forgot to tell you - I had the best Black Russian cocktail last night :) that's one off the list girls!! ...
MOSCOW!
... onion spires of St. Basil’s and luxurious beauty of the ГYM in Red Square. Plus, it’s Moscow, MOSCOW! The lair of the Russian Bear! The mysterious, seedy, terrifying, intrigue filled capital city of the Reds! Yeah, it was damn cool ...
Moscow - music and metro stations
... parts of the building in case I'd misunderstood the address. I must also add, everything is written in Russian (obviously) so if you arrive in Moscow and choose this type of accommodation, be prepared to teach yourself a few important words and learn the ...
Flying over Moscow
... Reading, we then turned and flew right over Braintree, it was even on the planes Satalite Navagation map! Currently we are over Moscow, and it is expected that we will fly over Siberia, and then down over Mongolia and the Gobi desert, before reaching ...
MOSCOW!!!
... sky and smokestacks peppered the countryside; their billowing grey exhalation penetrating the heavy, dark smog surrounding the greater Moscow region. We closed in on the ominous grey stratum and our carrier dropped down into and below the ...
Enjoyment level upgraded from Hell to Purgatory
... for suitably impressing me. However, despite their varied water selection they didn't have Badoit, which made me a little grumpy. I had a Russian sparkling water(can't remember its name) instead, which cost, I believe, 400 roubles, upping the ante on the ...
Moskva
Moskva je zagotovo najbolj fascinantno mesto na najini poti, a si ga bova bolj detajlno ocitno morala ogledati na katerem drugem najinem potovanju. Ze sam zacetek najinega bivanja v Moskvi se je pricel dokaj klavrno. Ze v Omsku sva se precej prehladila ...
ja lublju prinimat cholodnij dusch!
dobrij djen! erst einmal die absoluten breaking news: seit gestern gibt es warmes wasser im wohnheim! musste heute morgen feststellen, dass so eine dusche mit warmwasser gar nicht so richtig wach macht. sollte darueber nachdenken, zur ...
Day 5 Onboard Trans Sib
... ; At about 9pm (not late by anyone's standards) the older stewardess came and told us to go back to our coupe as the miserable Russian woman next door was complaining about the noise. When we disputed going to bed so early she told us just to stay in the ...
Hard Truths
The apartment isn't all that bad. My family works really late and so I don't see them very often. I get the sense that scientists and engineers don't make nearly as much money here as they do in America, relatively speaking. A friend of mine told her ...
Moscow Day #1
... in Moscow outside of the Kremlin. This area is full of beautiful old buildings and a row of gorgeous distinctly Russian churches and monasteries. ...
Sightseeing day
Went sightseeing today, took a subway to the Red Square, then got on an overview tour of Moscow. After the tour I met up with my friend Maria and we visited Novodevichy Convent, a very picturesque old monastery. ...
The Final Day
... like I walked into something out of some strange movie. There were Russians singing American karaoke, and even a pet peacock! The Russian waiters all spoke zero English but thankfully the guy running the karaoke machine spoke a little and was able to ...
A Country of Thieves
... aboard an overnight train to St. Petersburg tomorrow night, so it will be a while before I am able to post another installment of this Russian Saga. We look forward to better hospitality in our next Russian city! Until St. Petersburg . . . Hugs, ...
S Legkim Parom! Or...Enjoy Your Bath
... to say 'excuse me, can I get naked here?' I motioned taking off my clothes, and she let out a stream of rapid Russian. I felt uncomfortable and looked around. Everybody was looking at me....what do I do?? Taking a deep breath, I ...
Day 180 - Early Arrival in Moscow
... the most common. These stations were built between the 1930’s and 1950’s as a tribute to the Russian people. The Moscow Metro was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union and is now the world's second ...
Seat of Power
... cannon; and the exterior of the Palace of Congreses We visited the Tretyakov Art Gallery which houses over 40,000 works of Russian art, the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, Lenin Hills for a view of Moscow, and Lenin's Tomb where we walked past ...
Moscow, first place to visit
... close to the hostel, an Italian one. We did´t change money in the airport, so Misha lended us rublos (Russian money) to eat. Good, we are in Moscow, eating pizza, without money ... and the bed was really hard: I put my blanket and my sleeping bag as a ...
