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... few elevators. It was quite the pain with the baggage I've been carrying around. I'm just glad that back in Copenhagen I bought some wheels (new wheeled luggage) and outside of stairs, it wasn't a pain anymore. <br><br>So outside of the mad dash to the hotel, it was a nice day with little to speak of. I stayed in the hotel pretty much the whole evening and relaxing with some room service. I'll be a tourist tomorrow and do the last of my shopping. Fly out in 2 nights.

... of a scrapper, but there was no way in hell I was going to let that guy go near those girls. Thank goodness I didn't have to go that route. The train had stopped and Sergei asked me if I wanted to go out for a smoke. I told him no but said I should be heading back to my cabin. He shakes my hand and says goodbye. And in the end, I leave without a scratch along with my own personalized Russian gangster story to tell. <br>

Ca y est, nous sommes au bout du continent eurasien. Ca donne une bonne impression. La ville est encore une fois tres vallonnee, il est facile de monter sur des collines et d'avoir une vue sur les montagnes/iles alentours... sauf quand il y a du brouillard, ce qui aura ete notre cas. Dommage, mais ca donnait un cote mystique a la ville. Nous avons passe la 1re journee a harpenter le centre-ville ou il y a notamment un sous-marin sovietique ...

... jutro nama je postreglo s cudovitim vremenom v zal dokaj turobnem mestu. Vladivostok se zdalec ni tako razvit kot Kitajska mesta, a kljub temu ponuja popotniku kar nekaj zanimivosti. Oziroma jih ponuja v bolj primernem casu. Midva sva namrec tukaj prezivela le ponedeljek, ko je vecina muzejev zaprtih, ena najvecjih vojaskih flot (Ruska pacifiska flota) pa je ocitno bila med najinim obiskom izven zaliva. Do leta 1990 je bil Vladivostok popolnoma zaprt za vse tujce ...

... in far-west China. Hand-made Uighur knives. Nothing major, 12cm blades. But beautifully honed, and delicately finished. Ramrod makes a big song and dance, in a language which of course I don't understand, but in whose cadence and tone I am attaining a fine fluency. "You have just lost your knives." What, you're crazy! I am leaving China. That is Russia over there. I indicate that I cut food with the knives, and then stuff the food into my mouth. Po-face ramrod is unamused, and ...

... waiting to cross over. It takes lories in these queues about 3 days to get through. P and O ordered something in from the Latvian only menu for their meal that night. They weren't sure what it was except "meat" but it was tasty. They crossed into Russia on Sunday but that took them 5 ½ hours to negotiate. I haven't heard much more except at 9 this morning (Monday 28th July) there were 100km west of Moscow. They are ...

couchsurfing experience #2 in Russia...meet Kenny, my host in Podol'sk and triathlete extraordinaire, and my re-introduction to western civilization in the form of a McDonald's and a combo pizza/sushi restaurant. This is my two day experience of Podol'sk, one of the many small towns Lenin considered obscure enough to hide out in.

Staying outside of Tula, Russia's weapons manufacturing powerhouse, and just down the street from Tolstoy's farm (if by 'down the street' you mean 'roughly an hour and a half') almost not making it back to the farm, and meeting the eco-patrol in the form of 30 preteen campers, this is my adventure on the Russian farm.

... I teach levels from beginner to intermediate. I am not looking forward to teaching some of the certificate courses the school offers. Its very difficult and the school doesn't pay much. My current schedule is to work weekend days plus three nights during the week. Its not a very tough schedule but having to work weekends I miss out on some fun activities arranged through the school.