Alexandrovsky Garden Hotel Nizhny Novgorod Nizhniy Novgorod

... et visiter dans la ville. Le lendemain, un ami francais a eux nous guide dans la ville. Encore une fois il fait super beau (on commence a etre habitué). La ville est superbe et on arrive facilement a se ballader sans croiser des grosses avenues polluées. A midi, on deguste notre premier borch, pas mal... mais ca remplit le ventre que temporairement ! On appercoit des pecheurs sur la Oka gelée ...

Premiere vraie galere, pourtant c'etait bien partis, j'avais pris mon billet pour Kazan (en Russie, les billets s'achetent a la gare de depart), mais apres avoir marche sous une pluie battante avec du vent et 6 petits degres (affiches a la sortie de la gare, les chiffres qui apparaissent ici, sont des chiffres veritables) a la recherche d'un hotel ni rase ni ferme et ayant ...

Hello everyone. Well it has been a few days since the last blog so i thought i would update you all on are progress. We arrived in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's 3rd most populated city and started the hunt for a hotel. We had found one hotel which seemed quite cheap but when we got there, they wanted 10,000 roubles per night (about 200 pounds!!!). So we trekked back across the river to another hotel, which was meant to be ...

Niznij Novgorod (Gorky). Km 461 of the Trans-Siberian-Railway. A big vibrant industrial center of Volga region. More ...

Nizny Novgorod was not stop we planned in the beginning, but was recommended by people we met and Tim wanted to see the Volga of the Boatmen. It was a very nice town with lots of nice looking churches and a kremlin on top of the hill. A girl in Mcdonalds seemed surprised that tourists would come to Nizny Novgorod but its a nice spot. We arrived in the morning and booked the train to go that night (saves accomodation!) so had a day to wander.

Three-day visit to Nizhny Novogorod for work. We visited the city center (according to Wikipedia the fourth largest city in Russia) in the evening. In the past the city served as a Russian fortress with a dominating Kremlin structure on the ...

We got our first taste of Russian helpfulness as soon as we left the dreaded constraints of Moscow. I wanted very much to see something other than a sprawling, annoying, metropolis, so I picked Suzdal out of the options in the back of Lonely Planet Moscow. Unfortunately, the earliest bus from Moscow went at around 6pm, meaning that we would get to this wee town around 11pm. Coupled with this was the fact that none of the phone numbers listed for the hotels in Suzdal worked ...

... but this continued throughout the day so there was no chance of it being a mistake. One such Mongolian was huge, he waddled down the corridor with authority, he look like odd job from James Bond fame. We kept meeting down the corridor, I would be force to move out his way as quickly as possible. Walking between carriages was a skill in itself. Two metal plate resting on each other we all the was separating us from the ground. The train would rock back and forth the ...

... from surrounding cities. The weather here is really good for fall from what natives tell me. It's beautiful, all the autumn colors, and we still get some sun. Well, that's all for now. Thank you for your prayers! I feel your love and feel your prayers as the Lord blesses me with sweet communion! God bless you all and may you draw closer to Him and may He teach you each specifically how you may abound more and more in love! May he also keep you safe and healthy!

... am I, one of a handful of people going Beijing to Moscow direct fretting about a handful of hours. This is a long and epic rail route, but the train plays a practical purpose and is not just for the indulgence of travellers and explorers. as real working and living people get on and off for "short" journeys of a day or two. Many of the Chinese and Mongols on the train are students, and are not going ...