Best Eastern Versailles Hotel Vladivostok

... the GYM here, not nearly as nice as the one in Moscow. I won't be back. Overall though the city is much more cozy then moscow. feels similiar to Seattle or San Fran a bit. Every car though has the drivers side on the right side here, so much so that drive up stalls assume right side. This is when it's supposed to be officially the left, but being so close to Japan, they take what they can cheap.

Found a nice navy ...

... index finger. He was very calm about it yet it was clear that he was serious.

Stop, pause, eject. Immediately, I shake my head and hands and tell him that I don't even know those girls? I start to think of an exit plan, but the door was nearly shut. Fortunately, Sergei starts talking to me and Viktor goes back to his conversation with his other friend.

We continue to talk some more when Sergei makes a ...

... been surreal starting from my first steps off the plane. As we got off the plane, all the passengers loaded into a shuttle bus. Now either Russian airport employees have a great union or communism is still alive because our bus driver just drove us 15 feet to our stop. 15 feet! All of us foreigners couldn't help but laugh.


Next stop, border patrol. Barren walls ...

... oklepi zadnje generacije (ruske generacije) in vsaj trikrat toliko lazjih oklepnih vozil. Kolikor je mogoce videti po barvah ter opremljenosti je tezko orozje v mnogo boljsem stanju kot zgradbe v katerem ga hranijo. Ocitno vec sto odstotno povecevanje obrambnega proracuna ruske vojske vsako leto v zadnjem desetletju se kako dobro dene opremi. 50 milijard dolarjev za vojsko v letu 2007, se ocitno tukaj ze na prvi pogled pozna ter ruski vojaki ocitno ne rabijo vec ...

... track border town of Pogranichnyy while the carriages go off somewhere to be lifted by crane from their Chinese wheel bases and placed on to broader axles. Three hours in the sun. And a deli that carried a range from local smoked salmon and fresh Ementaller cheese to two dozen labels of vodka and fridges of beer. So, when in Rome, or otherwise ... Hours earlier, the train had ambled into the Chinese border town of Suifenhe. Tanya, the carriage attendant had supplied all the ...

Chilometro 9283, cinque al termine. Guardo il mare dal finestrino: sembra un miraggio dopo tutto questo tempo passato ad aspettarlo. Sono rimasto solo in queste ultime due ore di viaggio, come e' giusto che sia. I miei compagni di scompartimento sono scesi all'alba a Ussuriysk; tre simpatici ragazzi di Yakutsk che mi hanno tenuto compagnia in quest'ultima corsa in treno in Russia. Non sembrano affatto russi dai lineamenti, ma quasi eschimesi: beh, se date un'occhiata all ...

... old and dirty! There were only men on board and I set next to a 300 pound Russian man. The men were smoking and so was the pilot. I've never been afraid of flying, but got pretty nervous during take-off. There was one other woman and she was the flight attendant who wore a mini skirt. How she managed to serve drinks and food during the 3 hour flight in that outfit in the dinky little plane ...

... that Vladivostok became the main Russian port on the Pacific ocean. Vladivostok is definitely a seaport. Most of the people are somehow connected with the sea: some are sailors, some are fishermen, some are ...

... nicht oft Besuch bekommt, der von ihm wissen will, wie es hier war, zur Gulag-Zeiten. In einer billigen schwarzen Einkaufstasche schleppt er ein Stapel Papiere mit, Dokumente über die seine Rehabilitierung und die Rehabilitierung seiner Familie. Sein Vater wurde im Frühjahr 1938 erschossen, angeblich für anti-sowjetische Propaganda in einer Kolchose. "er war niemals in einer Kolchose, sondern bei der Eisenbahn, aber das hatte das niemanden interessiert". Sidorow trägt einen ...

... und die Sonne scheint. Ein Winter, den es im europäischen Russland fast nicht mehr gibt. Wir sind im Neuen Moskau, um mit seinen Einwohner zu sprechen, die sich in ihrer Verzweifelung zu einer spontanen Bürgerinitiative zusammengeschlossen haben. Sie können und sie wollen nicht mehr zusehen, wie ihr Wald illegal abgeholzt und verkauft wird. Lokale Verwaltung, Mafia, Wilderer haben sich zusammengetan, erzählen die Einwohner. Hochwertige, Hunderte von Jahren ...