Kuchkov's Guest House
Travel Blogs from Suzdal
Out into the country
... Apparently the guides here in Russia have a good award - only local guides can do the job. Our guide in Vladimir is also an Olga, so the confusion is kept to a minimum.
We drive a short distance to another church - this time the Cathedral of St. Dimitry. By now the rain is falling steadily, and we all troop off the bus to participate in a theatre of the absurd. We are all huddled under umbrellas while the guide goes through the ...
To historic cities and beyond
... directions on our pamphlet to our hostel.
We are often asked about where we stay while we are travelling. Most
travellers tend to stay in hostels, while most tourists (our age) tend to stay
in hotels, but then tourists don’t spend 5 months hoping from place to place
and trying to make their money last. Each place has its pro’s and con’s. Generally,
one would expect hotels to have a higher standard than a hostel – ...
The bells are a ringing!
... of the beautiful fairy tale churches with the domed rooves. It was a rather quiet, quaint ,peaceful old town and we essentially just took pleasure in eating more Russian food (which we were starting to quite like!) admired the artists taking down the images of the churches, listened to the bells being rung and chimed, and sampled local delicacies! The town was also noteworthy for its 'honey wine', which I think would call mead. But here is comes in a range of I ...
Monastery
We left Suzdal at 12pm and stopped then in Yur'yev-Polskiy. After a tour of St. Georg's Cathedral we visited the monastery of Archangel Michael founded in the 13th century and now with buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Lunch was in the one and only cafe that exists in this ...
Start of the Golden Ring
Why Golden Ring? It is a string of the country's oldest towns that formed the core of eastern Kyvian Rus. The whole stretch is covered in onion-shaped domes, kremlins and little cottages.
We started off the Golden Ring in Vladimir visitng the Assumption Cathedral, St. George's Chapel and Cathedral of St.Dmitry.
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