Best Eastern Jouk Jacque 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 ...

... rough but turned out to be really cool. Even the statue of Lenin in the square next door appeared to be pointing the way to the hotel!. After checking in, we went to the train station to buy tickets, which then left us with 2 days in the city. We wondered around the many Church's in the city and the Kremlin, which was full of wedding parties or something like that as brides and grooms were everywhere, getting ...

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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 ...

... and locking the door behind us. We really had no conception of what these diabolical men in black were up to, and just stood around joking that we were going to be gassed. Well dammit, you never know, people had been THAT nuts and awful to us in Moscow.... Anyway, the mystery was finally solved when they all went up onto a slight wooden platform, one with a folder in hand. Obviously they were going to sing. Unfortunately, the leader VERY pointedly said no photos or ...

... out of the train briefly and have a quick look around. We could judge how long before the train was to leave by the movement of the Mongolian traders, who all jumped off trying to sell their goods to any unsuspecting customers, unfortunately there were none. That didn't stop them shouting trying to sell to each other, like a practice run honing their skills. Each trader wearing 5 jackets each, carrying a further 5, odd job at one time was wearing a fetching pink woman ...

Alrighty.... I have my research paper done (two days early...what a shocker!) and took my Russian language final today. I did well...only by the grace of God and my teacher...:O) I'm just glad it's over! On Wednesday comes the big one....the final for my other three classes. It's one final that encompasses EVERYTHING we "learned" this semester into one test. It's four hours long and will count as one grade for three classes....*choking*. I really hope I don't ...

... Moscow. By the time we leave Vladimir Pass in heavy fog, there are 4 hours and 210 km to go and it feels as if the train is empty. There are only 4 people left in the 9 compartments of my carriage. The feeling is reminiscent of the last few days at school or university where you have fond emotions but they haven't quite crystallised as memories, and you're just waiting for the next phase of your ...