Novosibirsk Hotel

... and landing on another mans shoulders from metres above the ground.<br>Then when the circus couldn't possibly get any better, the whole stage suddenly started to fill with water! A deep swimming pool was created with fountains spurting out water all around its circumference.<br>We had all experienced 3 hours of pure astonishment.<br><br>We were ready to leave Moscow the next day and were accompanied by Chris, Olga and Helen. Chris had gone shopping for us so that we had a ...

... later turned into a trendy outfit even in France. You need rubber shoes when you go to out-house. You need rubber shoes when you go to the only store in Village. You need rubber shoes whenever you go. Otherwise you can't get anywhere. My sister got married to a Russian guy. My nieces-twins were born, so I got an honor to babysit them, crossing the border line the first time in my life. Year of 1993, I was in 7th ...

... ivänä oli vähän viileämpi ja taivaalla oli välillä pilviä. Myös tuuli oli yltynyt melko kovaksi. Me istuskelimme kahvilassa pelaamassa Unoa niin kauan kun aurinko alkoi pimentyä. Sitten siirryimme ulos ja katselimme auringon peittymistä hitsauslasien läpi. Osittainen pimennys ei ollut kovin ihmeellista nähtävää, mutta sitten aurinko meni kokonaan pilveen ja yhtäkiä oli pimeää keskellä päivää. Oli jopa vähän pelottavaa, kun kun ...

... drive. They lived in an apartment. The highlights in Russia for me was seeing the ballet Giselle in Moscow, and the Winter Palace and the boat tour on the River Neva in St Petersburg. On the boat tour we saw amazing navy boats!!! We had a lovely experience of Russia. Mike: Moscow is a very different place to St Petersburg, probably accentuated by reverting to being moreso tourists or observers rather than seeing and ...

... eggs (still warm), gherkins, a sugar bun and a banana. Lovely. The scenery is much of a muchness at first glance (forests and yet more forests, with a bit of steppe thrown in), but if you look closely there are a number of changes as you move West. The countryside becomes a little less wild as you leave Eastern Siberia, and you can also see the seasons change each day. In Mongolia a couple of weeks ago it was still early spring, with vivid green leaves on the ...

We both started today a little gingerly owing to some little mishaps yesterday. In two separate incidents we had slipped over on the icy pavement. When you do fall, it all happens so quickly you do not have a chance to tense yourself, so you tend to fall over in a fairly boneless fashion and are able to get back up with the main injury suffered being a battered pride. I have a bit of a crick in my neck and Belle has a bit of a sore knee but we are otherwise fine. Today we decided we ...

... instead we go to an amateur production. I get lumped with the responsibility of finding our way there, unfortunately I had rather got into the habit of paying little attention to directions and enjoying getting a little lost as a result. After taking the scenic route we arrive with seconds to spare, and a good thing too as the dozen of us who attend make up the majority of the audience in a tiny 60 seat theater. The performance, so far ...

... were the various heads of the KGB, including a picture of V. Putin, the current Russian Head of State. The clientele ranged from Ho-Ki and myself, to a table of 3 young couples partying it up, to 3 single ladies together (one the recipient of a bunch of roses which the waitstaff had provided a temporary vase) obviously celebrating something because they ordered champagne, to finally two ladies all dressed up in their Friday-night finery but ...

... Mike always stops in for several beers and off he goes again . For his next appointment . Vodka is the order of the day , or night , in the lively restaurant car and it ranges from cheap and rough to the more sophisticated and pure . But I have to admit it all tastes the same to me . A fire in the belly and a loss of balance inevitable when attempting to find the door to your compartment . Which most probably is not in the same place it ...

Continued from ; A glimpse of Moscow The "Baikal", from 8th to 12th February 2004 We check out of the hostel after a long hot shower. It is a fact that second class passengers do not have the use of a shower on the train. And It's a 5 day journey. I've brought a short length of garden hose pipe with me. Not in case I may decide to gas myself . But because I read somewhere that by connecting a hosepipe to a tap at the ...