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VOLGA BULGARIA RUSSIA
There is a historic city, just a town, or village in Tatarstan which is about a thousand years old. Bulgarians settled on the Volga river years ago. There is a Russian Orthodox Church, unfortunately it is a museum right now. I visited the place in 2003 by way of hydrofoil from ...
Togliatti
Samara is not on the Trans-Siberian-Railway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara%2C_ Russia ...
Ausflug nach Kasan
Wochenendausflug nach Kasan, in die Hauptstadt der Tataren! Moooooaaah! Das ist eine geile Stadt! Sie hat total viel Athmosphäre und es gibt lecker Schaschlik und einen wunderschönen Kreml. Sehr zu empfehlen, oder, wie unser Professor das ausdrückt: "Bei den Türken ist was los, die sind nicht so wie die finnisch-ugrischen Waldbewohner, die ihr Maul nicht ...
Slept Like a Baby
We slept like babies on the train as we didn't have to worry about anything with the door locked. We missed seeing the white Europe-Asia Border Obelisk outside of Kungur, but who figured we'd miss spotting a snow covered white monument in the middle of the night? Using our favorite new toy we updated the blog and hopefully will upload some updates ...
Happy Thanksgiving weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving! We had a potluck thanksgiving meal and really enjoyed each others' company.We're were thankful that we finished exams just the day before. We had papers with everyone's name on it and we wrote little messages to each other, of why we're thankful for them. It was so heart-warming to write them and then to receive your own paper. I am so thankful for our group, to see how God put us together. I've had mixed feelings about leaving. ...