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And so the adventure begins-The Northern Capital
... mins late as I got the time wrong in the first place. So after being yelled at by some big (obviously very unimpressed) Russian lady, she proceeded to throw us into a room where we finished watching the first act. The ‘Little Humpbacked ...
Romanced by this city
What a beautiful city this is, so European with it's canals and white nights. Highlight here for me was going to see the Russian Ballet, Swan Lake!! ...
The Paris of Siberia, apparently
... are not hard up. Its up early and back to Irkutsk where we visit the Decemberists museum, pretty interesting about Russian ex liberal revolutionary exile's. Irkutsk is a strange city, its apparently called Paris of Siberia but perhaps I caught it ...
Delirious From Museums, Churches, Art and Music
... puts a lot of feeling into his presentation of the historical facts and incidents relating to the building. He speaks only Russian, however, and our guide must translate everything he says. We move through the lower level formal halls wearing little ...
The Lake
After the train journey we somehow swindled a lift to the lake with a Swedish girl who was staying there too. We arrived at the lake early morning just as the sun was rising, there was not a cloud in the sky but it was freeeeeeeeeeezing! Somewhere around ...
Splendiferous Siberia
... sculptures (Hermitage is mostly marble & plaster), fascinating Lenin and Stalin propaganda art, tons of Russian Renaissance paintings, ancient Nordic wood crafts, and several extraordinarily brilliant St. Petersburg landscape/ship/water paintings. ...
Caleb - All Smiles
... ; We will be taking the train tomorrow night back to Moscow. We had a wonderful dinner in the restaurant in the hotel. Russian food is very, very good. We love getting to eat here - it is sooo wonderful. There are tastes here that we ...
Da!
... of recognition. Having seen the pictures a lot, it's amazing to see all the buildings up-close and personal. Reading up on Russian history finally made me understand a bit more about what the country has been through the last century. Glad it's more ...
A Trip to Kazan!!!
... Both Russain and Tatar are spoken by the people who live here. But, I have to say I am having a hard enough time with Russian so I will stick with trying to learn that first before moving on to something else. On Sunday, we went to a monastery about ...
Hello Moscow!
The Kremlin, Red Square and Babushka Dolls!!No Russian Mafia or Skin-head Gangs (with Ross Kemp). Low profile dinners of borsch and beer!!Fabulous metro tube stations; ornate, original and opulent! I hope you have enjoyed a few of our stories? We are ...
Day #2 on Elbrus
... the mountain you just see all green - all valley's - no Caucaus mountain range. We trekked down for a while together and chatted about Russian and US politics (he also told me a story about how two weeks ago 11 people died on Elbrus due to unexpected bad ...
First Empressions - don't even think about it.
... place to be. But the thing with Russia is, if you don't have a VISA (as paid for, tons of money, stamped from Russian Embassy where you live) you cannot get off the ship anyway, unless you take a ships tour or you have a pre paid guided tour by a ...
Где я?
... as foreign). While doing so this mid-20’s-early-30’s on crack looking guy approaches me. *If anybody has seem the Russian TV Series Небо и Земля then this guy looks like Cha-Cha and ...
2. St Petersburg
Afscheid, sneeuw en witte nachten We zijn onderweg! Eindelijk is het dan zo ver. Na ruim anderhalf jaar dagdromen begint het avontuur nu echt. Inmiddels zitten we in St. Petersburg of Petersburg voor intimi. De laatste weken voor ons vertrek ...
Husky Dog Sledding
Running low on time, so this will be a quick entry. I got up early and climbed to the top of the hill where the Ski-Lift went, but due to cloudy, misty weather was not rewarded with a view. After the best breakfast we have possibly had on the trip, ...
And so it begins
... an extreme heat wave) so sipping beer on a river cruise was a cooler way of seeing the sights. We've discovered a delicious Russian soup ('Borsch') yet more importantly we've enjoyed good coffee. There is a noticeable language barrier here and some of the ...
Daunting Moscow
... it out. On getting off the train, our directions had told us to take the "circle exit", but as all the signs were in Russian, we had no idea which exit to take. So we walked around tunnels and escalators for about 10 minutes, and by pure chance emerged ...
big heads and Buddhas in Buryatia
... and finding cheap places to have lunch and read books out of the cold. We discovered a couple of cheap and cheerful 'stolvayas' - Russian self-service canteens that are the cheapest places to eat out. We weren't quite sure what we were eating most of the ...
One Last Goodbye
... water under the sink in the bathroom, for just such an occasion. What would the point be if we could not experience the full Russian experience to tell to our children! We are now in bad need of showers as we were too tired last night by the ...
Strolling and Shopping...
Strolled along the lovely waterway adjacent to Red Square...and did some window-shopping in the mall. Seems it was featuring a "Cow" ...
Yekateringburg
... pickles filled the air. We found our seats/beds and tried to make ourselves comfortable - This was made difficult by a large group of Russian guys knocking back the vodkas and playing cards (whilst sitting on our bed!!) - We were both a bit on edge at ...
Moscow: Our final and fascinating city
... had the foggiest what was going on. The last few days were spent buying the odd gift, and visiting a vodka museum in a weird Russian theme park . There's a mountain of things to do and see in Moscow and we could have stayed longer. We didn't have time to ...
Day 2 Moscow
... ; We set off back to the centre of Moscow at about 8pm for something to eat as Jenya had told us about a nice Russian restaurant called Yalki Polki that served good food and was reasonably priced. Before going to the restaurant we got some really ...
Day 3 Boarding the Trans Siberian Railway
... it was only 5 minutes and my bag appeared. We then had to faff about with customs form but it was written in Russian so I explained I couldn't understand it so she huffed and filled it in for me (which kina makes a farce of the whole thing as ...
Crazy Russia!
... Im just waiting for the next dress up party! Trying to barter with the shop owners is almost impossible when its a good russian doll. I was once again abused by a BABOOSHKA!. In Moscow i completed a somewhat newfound lifelong dream. That is to see ...
I Made It to Russia!
... only a 10 minute walk or so, we stopped almost immediately to get some beers to drink on the way (incidentally, the Russian government is considering adopting a law like in America preventing drinking alcohol on the streets -- but it's not there yet). ...
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Beat down
... . Alexsey, Anna's husband who has been a generous and gracious host all week, took me and Kevin to a banya, or Russian bath house. Kevin is another American visitor from Arkansas, though displaying none of the Arkansas stereotypes. He's the younger ...