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First Day on the Volga River
... of its length for three months each year. The Moscow Canal, the Volga-Don Canal, and the Mariinsk Canal systems form navigable waterways connecting Moscow to the White Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. On our way to our first port of call, Uglich, we pass the famous bell-tower of Saint Nicholas's Cathedral (built in 1800) which rises high above the surface of the Volga River. Uglich is ...
Mother Russia: The Madness of Moscow
... tour where it promptly started ******* down and not just a little, massive torential rain. so after our soaking and stressful moment where we thought our tour had gone in without us, we go through. then the lightling started, right on top of us, loud and more buckets of rain. Strangely enough within a few hours we were dry again as the sun came out.. the Kremlin is a massive fortress containg lots of cathedtrals and monements that never quite were, the ...
Im Chock Full of Kulcha
... just big. There was none of that dancing and singing malarkie going on in there so I thought it would be perfect. The front doors were locked. I tried walking around the back and there was a gate open. I went in but the door was locked but there was a stair way to the basement. I went down there but was met at the bottom by a security guard. I tried to explain I was security in Australia and as a prefessional ...
Moscow, Russia
... Union it was closed but it has reopened after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
2) The next place I decided to visit was the Tretyakov Gallery. There I met a tour guide how told me how the museum became so beautiful. His name was Kirill and he came from St. Petersburg. He told me that the museum contains a wonderful collection of traditional Russian art. In this gallery there is Pavel Tretyakov collection of art. Pavel ...
Natural Disasters & Unexpected Stops in Moscow
... Russian embassy, fork over $140, and wait until it's ready before you go BACK to the embassy to pick it up. Or you mail it off to an agency for even more $$. Or there's leaving your passport in a small shop in Chinatown for a week....which of course is what I did, against the advice of some travel friends. All of that to say, the idea of spending $140 to see Moscow for only a few hours seemed a bit ridiculous. I just couldn't ...
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