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Big big city, four lane highways through the center of the city, not what I expected.<br><br>So the reason for my title. <br><br>The Good.<br><br>The Hermitage - Artwork artwork artwork, all the big names in one big building, Picasso, Monet etc. The building itself is a work of art.<br><br>Peter and Paul Fortress - A moment away from the traffic and a chance to walk around cobbled streets and an old town. Down by the river, actually an island in the center of the river that runs ...

We boarded the train in Latvia in high spirits with provisions of beer, salami and cheese and the train left exactly on time at 19:30. <br><br>I had mixed emotions about coming Russia and as we crossed boarder at 3am and the Russian's marched (yes marched!) I was starting to wonder whether it was a good idea. From our top bunks/shelves we managed the process but the offical eyeballed us numerous ...

7.30pm train out of Riga to St Petersburg, our first sleeper.<br><br>For the journey ahead we loaded up on fine spicey susage, cheese, chunk of bread and a couple of local ales <br><br>Height was not considered when setting up the top bunks, feet over hang and no head room. Had to resort to a bit of break dancing to get in for the night, now a master of the caterpillar.<br><br>Shared our four birth space ...

Narva, on the Russian border, is more the Soviet city I had been expecting when I came east. As Estonia's third most populous city, its 67,000 residents need a lot of ugly block apartments to live in. Not that it's all bad, it just meshes really well with my impression of Russian cities - almost out of the movies. I keep having to remind myself that those big, Russian mafia-looking men are really just big Russian men, minus the mafia, and that the mob ...

Sillamae is a delightful surprise, not at all the Soviet monstrosity I had been expecting. Located in northeastern Estonia, it forms part of the country's industrial corridor and is a mostly Russian speaking place. Sillamae, with a population of 17,000 and proudly proclaiming itself Estonia's 7th largest city, was built post-WWII when the Soviets discovered local oil shale contained small, extractable amounts of uranium. Five thousand Russian political prisoners built the uranium ...

Hi All, Just a quick update to let you know where we have got to in the last couple of weeks (which seems a lot longer than that!). We have covered quite a bit of territory now, and have indeed reached our most northerly point of the trip! We both really liked Poland, and found it cheaper than the Baltic countries, and interesting with the least English spoken (the majority of people we have come across in the 3 baltic ...

... why I headed off on this great adventure. What I wanted to, and what I have actually achieved are more important now so here's the list broken down into Achieved - see Ayres Rock/Uluru - done - grow a beard and see if it suits - done twice (needs temperate weather) - learn to scuba dive and then do it in some interesting places (done but would have liked to do more actual diving. Red Sea shortly) - visit some Aussie war memorials to pay respects (e.g ...

these are the plans for the next days, but they can change quickly In Italics you will find the things I REALLY did : - tuesday 5th : going with Annelia to her family near Narva : yes, that happened, and we also drove along the coast, very nice - wednesday 6th : a quiet day in Tallinn (maybe meet Karita) and in the evening meet Valkirien. Well, no sign of Karita anywhere, and I went to Pirita beach and monastery, met some friends from HC ...

I like to walk here with friends and to do shopping. I come here very often.<br>It's my favourite city. I don't want to live here becouse I want to see it only as city for the rest and walks)<br>I can't to speak about this city, I can only to show that I see here, by photo and video.<br>Wait, I will add new files sometimes....)<br>