Best Eastern Morskaya Murmansk

... During the day I read a bit, played cards and eat mainly. The views have thus far not very good it has mostly been trees. I am having banna sandwiches for lunch and noodels for dinner which I will be having over the next few days. There is a hot water dispenser at the end of the hallway . I managed to have my first shower as well or sink whoer as it is ...

... massive shipping port extending into the distance, once we got up to the top of the hill and could see down to the bay. Loud clangs and the sound of 24 hour non stop work that was going on in earnest. The city was in ill repair. The dark dirt grey blocks reaching for thee heavens, but only managing to block the view to it. The streets wide, and in better repair that most in Romania, yet the same hard and tired look on the faces of the inhabitants. We drew many stares as we ...

... Rucksack und dann noch eine riesengroße karierte Tasche - ganz Russen-Style. Dann war noch das Problem, den Bahnsteig zu finden und die Zeit ist immer knapper geworden. Als wir dann endlich auf der Zielgeraden waren, haben uns ein paar Leute angesprochen, wo wir denn her sind und wohin wir fahren und so weiter. Wir waren eigentlich nicht in der richtigen Stimmung für derartige Konversationen, aber es hat sich herausgestellt, dass die von einem franz ...

... Kaverimme Fen ja Du ovat kylla ihan mahtavia heppuleita. Hopottavat meille kiinaks jotain ja sit kattovat ihmeissaan, et ettekste nyt noin yksinkertaista asiaa tajua. Ne syo ihan helvetin paljon nuudelia. Syo ne kyl kaikkee ihmeellistakin kanan varpaista alkaen ja tarjoovat aina meillekkin. Ulkonaosta riippuen joko maistan tai en. Annika tietysti ei, jaa paitsi kurkkua. Huomaatteko miten jannaa. Syomista... Kirjoittelen kohan on jotain asiaa. Pistanpa kuvia nyt ainakin.

After queuing for 1 hour the day before for tickets, we returned today and managed to successfully book tickets to Irkutsk. We ended up spending the rest of the day sitting in the hostel waiting for 3 french people to come back that we had met earlier in the day. We managed at 8pm to weave our way through the metro, which was decorated with marble floors and massive chandeleers, and then met up with another french man, Phillipe, who helped us to ...

... way of life. Visit a town called Nickel. Named after the metal they mine there. Well everything is dead within 50 km of here. No birds or trees or anything. Just rock. Over the hill you see some grey concrete buildings and a few people who just stared at you. Please don't break down now! The changing in road surface was pretty much instant. No more nice curvy well layed roads. This was dirt with lumps of tarseal thrown at ...

... ticket, the first woman did a Niet and send me to another more comprehensive lady. The second one who tried her best to understand me finally took her mobile phone (god save the mobile) and called her son who was speaking english to do the translation: at the end I had my ticket and everything was fine. I continued then my visit of the city in the middle of the square building, till I heared some music and seen some taxi waiting at the door of ...

... because all the Reindeer in Finland are owned by someone.) They also pose a hazard, as they do not have a good road sense, and bus driver had to often jam on his breaks to avoid hitting them. We arrived at the capital of Finland's winter sports, Ivalo, at 12:30. It still felt like the sun had not risen, as it was yet another cloudy day, and as we were further north-east, the sun was up for even less time. We first booked our ticket for our bus to the Russian city of Murmansk ...

... for later printing. Just plug it into any USB port and upload or download to your heart's content. Don't leave home without one! Additional note: China has been the only place i've had difficulty using this. Finding internet cafes is difficult and then they don't allow USB to be used for some reason. ========== Finally, one has to be organised when on the road and rapidly moving in, across and out of countries ...

... and sweden. we drove on in murmansk, which is the largest city on the kola peninsula, with a population of 300,000. during the height of the industrial growth of the USSR, the population was close to half a million, many of whom were forced during the gulag to move north to provide labour for the various industies of the north. if the ukraine was the USSR's breadbasket, the kola was it's industrial and military arm. unlike ...