Sibir Forum Hotel Tomsk
91 Lenin street Tomsk, Siberia, 21000, Russian Federation
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Siberia......baby!
... of the first evening keeping out the way, reading and listening to podcasts. A big shout out to James Ric*******, Danny Baker, Chris Evans, Ian Wright, Dave Gorman and Kirsty Youngs desert island discs. Kirsty has such a soft and soothing voice and makes every interview interesting. I typically slept listening to Karl Pilkington discuss monkeys, then dream about monkeys.
A full day on the train ...
Tomsk - A Positively Russian Experience
... s why we chose to make a stop-over here. It is also referred to as the "Oxford of Siberia" due to the presence of a University and other institutions of higher learning including a Medical School, a Geology and Petroleum Institute and an Ecology and Climate Research Centre. However, what really makes Tomsk a bit special are its "gingerbread" wooden houses. These traditional cottages, some several stories high are silvered and blackened by the weather, and ...
The Trans-Siberian Express
... as helping their ailing economy). As for accommodation along the way - much of it is obviously on the train, but in Tomsk, Irkutsk, and UB we used the net to source our quarters for those stays. The best resource we can recommend is www.hostelbookers.com. They seem to be able to find good, inexpensive accommodation in the most out of the way places, but not always. For a travel guide we used the Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Edition (get the latest as things ...
From Siberia With Love
... a bit of a walk around the evening we arrived, and then the next morning woke up to a gray, rainy, and cold day. I think the high that day was 13! It was very chilly. But we aren’t complaining! After all the heat in Australia and southeast Asia we are totally fine with cool weather. So that day we just walked around some more, saw three separate bridal parties (it was a Saturday), and killed some time in a shopping mall.
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Tom Tomsk FC
... the platform smashed with their tops off and they also all wanted to speak to us (mainly Amy for some reason). Vlad left and was replaced with another guy who seemed to know Igor. They bought some more cognac and carried on drinking but we were practically passed out by this stage despite Igor's attempts to rouse Elizabeth which is what he had decided Amy was called. When we woke up Igor's friend got me to help him learn English by ...
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