Diveevskaya Sloboda Hotel Diveevo Nizhniy Novgorod

... Some random Church's around the city were also fairly cool but most were closed due to weddings! We went to a local studies museum which stuff about the shamans who live in Siberia, very cool. After that came the worst nights sleep ever. We became true backpackers as we slept in the train station on the benches! Pretty uncomfortable but i managed 2 hours before being awakened by the guards who didn't want anyone to sleep for some ...

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... men kompisen hans bar han rundt overalt naar han maatte paa do, roeyka og slikt. Me forstod at det hadde skjedd i ein bilulykke. Me fekk og vita at han hadde vore i sibirsk fengsel i 6 aar. Kompisen hans jobba med aa sprenga bruar i oestlege sibir! Men det var ikkje berre slike hardhause me moette paa. Det var tyskarar, nederlendarar og alt mogleg rart. Det vart ogsaa mykje kortspel og lening ut av vindauget for aa sjaa paa ...

... the biggest country in the world but did not realise that is had 8 time zones and is 17,175,000 sq kilometeres (6.5million square miles)!! To put that in to perspective think how long it would take to drive or get the train from New Romney or even london to the northern most point in Scotland. The whole of the UK can fit onto Russian 69 times!! Crossing all of the times zones messed up our body clocks a ...

... Thomas, lots of history has happened on this ancient railway. Our own account is probably the least interesting but we did have some strange encounters with our railway carriage attendant who was a grumpy Mongolian lady who tried to sell us lots of stuff we didnt want or need... more soon...

... give it a miss or just spend the day there, heading elsewhere once night falls. In discussing the general area, most place its neighbors Tyumen, Tobolsk, Omsk, Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk higher in the ranks. Well, they're kind of right. Novosibirsk is a thoroughly modern city with precious little in the way of sites. In spite of it being the largest city in Siberia, it has little to offer besides a grandiose opera house, a few not-so-historic churches and a predominantly ...

... t feel unsafe for a minute. The not-small forty-five-year-old wore a white, cotton, long-sleeved button-down shirt, tucked into comfortable jeans, to the culture house seating only 1100. He extended one leg from his stool, bent the other beneath him for balance, held his accoustic guitar, and talked to us playfully like a gentle friend. Between songs, he contentfully read his "stixi" (poetry). Though he wasn't far, I couldn't see his face. I'd left my glasses on ...

... and to go to the train station. We left Novosibirsk at 22.30 pm local tour (3 hours more than Moscow time). The train, in general, was older. Sunday 19-08 The train is full of tourist people (most of them solo travellers) but with so many empty rooms ... I cannot understand why ...

... nadie aproveche de ti!" (Life is only about eating and getting together. ... and may no one take advantage of you!) - Chilean band, "Los Prisioneros" With a job in place for the fall, I left Tomsk with Alyona, the light-Asiatic Bashkirk painter, to hitchhike to the Altai Mountains. -- Hitchhiking in Siberia isn't like I'd thought it would be. Inescapable, nightmarish forests don't swarm the road, and every night camping isn't a gamble ...

... is the director of the international office. All 98 pounds of her exert fierce energy in her tasks of administration. She is very hearty and loving, but can also be intimidating. Classes are going well, I'm starting to practice my Russian with students in the caf. It's funny how when I try to pull new Russian words out of memory, I have such an urge to use my Spanish and Romanian, and a few times words of those languages have spilled out. There are ...