Oka Hotel Nizhniy Novgorod

... s d'une foreuse manuelle pour faire des trous... interessant ! Nous regrettons de ne rester que 1 journée chez Macha et Genia, car ils sont tellement charmants ! Ils sont fan de culture et de musique francaise, et ils apprennent tous les deux le francais a une vitesse impressionante. Ils nous arrangent meme notre logement pour notre prochaine etape a Iekaterinbourg chez une copine a eux. En ...

... de la place, le sul que j'avais trouve proposait des chambres a 5000 roubles (140 Euros), j'ai senti une pointe de lassitude poindre, avant de finalement trouver un hotel tout pourris, pour seulement 2000 roubles, c'etait ca ou bien je tentais la gare (option non retenue). Le lendemain, visite du Kremlin de la ville, le temps ne s'ameliore pas et j'ai gagne un etat grippal.

... rough but turned out to be really cool. Even the statue of Lenin in the square next door appeared to be pointing the way to the hotel!. After checking in, we went to the train station to buy tickets, which then left us with 2 days in the city. We wondered around the many Church's in the city and the Kremlin, which was full of wedding parties or something like that as brides and grooms were everywhere, getting ...

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Nizny Novgorod was not stop we planned in the beginning, but was recommended by people we met and Tim wanted to see the Volga of the Boatmen. It was a very nice town with lots of nice looking churches and a kremlin on top of the hill. A girl in Mcdonalds seemed surprised that tourists would come to Nizny Novgorod but its a nice spot. We arrived in the morning and booked the train to go that night (saves accomodation!) so had a day to wander.

... During the communism era, the city has lost a touch with the outside world as it hosted some of the Russian key industries (engineering, R&D, automobile and airplane industries). This is somehow visible in the overall industrial ambience.

... that it would have done me any good, I wouldn't have understood the response after I badly blurted out 'Do you have a room tonite and how much?' in Russian). Well, in the usual way I respond to issues such as these, I went '**** it, Russia can't get any worse, we'll figure it out when we get there', and promptly put it out of my mind. It was a miracle we got there at all, given that 'there' ended up being the bus stopping at a crossroads to a road only slightly better than a ...

... would rattle and jump and you could clearly see the ground below. Matters were complicated further by the ice that had formed on the plates making them very slippery. Lorraine and I went down to the restaurant cart to see what delights were on the menu. The menu was extensive, you could have anything you wanted as long as it was chicken, chicken or chicken. There was also Shnizle but that also turned out to be chicken. The first stop of the day was Kirov and a chance to ...

... Moscow. By the time we leave Vladimir Pass in heavy fog, there are 4 hours and 210 km to go and it feels as if the train is empty. There are only 4 people left in the 9 compartments of my carriage. The feeling is reminiscent of the last few days at school or university where you have fond emotions but they haven't quite crystallised as memories, and you're just waiting for the next phase of your ...

I've settled in pretty well here; my first week at Nizhniy. I have decorated my dorm room with all your cards, and have the encouraging notes from my great friends from community group at my bedside! My class schedule is language class from 9:30-12:30 with a tea break, then our first seminar: History and Sociology of Religion in Russia from 2-4 pm, Monday through Thursday (The other two seminars will follow in the subsequent months). It looks intense, but I love the language teacher ...