Richmond Hotel Yekaterinburg
136 Malysheva, Ekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg, Urals, 620078, Russian Federation
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Trans-Siberian moves slowly to Ekaterinburg
... 8217;s during the journey remained unopened.
Sergey got off at midnight and we hoped that we might get the cabin to ourselves for the remainder of the journey. Donna popped off the train to take some more photos, leaving me to try and force some of our luggage underneath the seat in the storage compartment, at which point a gentleman the size of a house decided he was coming in with his mate, both of which were very Russian and once it ...
The Trans-Siberian Railway
... Orthodox cathedral dedicated to the recently canonised royal family. As part of the general religious revival in Russia, the Orthodox Church appears to be going to great lengths to promote the story of the last Tsar and his family. As terrible as the murders were, the Tsar was definitely not saintly material, so it smacked of politics to us – perhaps the church fears a revival of communism?
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Arrival in Ekaterinburg
... the Russians are avid collectors of ‘stuff’. So we gave her some UK & NZ coins.. After that interchange was completed I needed to rest my brain!!
It seemed as though all the other passengers in our carriage had abandoned us at some point on the journey but I have no idea when. I doubt that we will be so lucky on the next leg when we are on the train for 3 nights – oh dear, who’s decision was this?!!!
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Better be prepared
... you Olga!
What else we saw from Yekaterinburg you’ll see on the pictures.
And now we are in the train again and to be honest, I like the trains. You have your own bed and it`s warm, you can get hot water for sups or tea all the time, Russians are funny to travel with and the swinging of the wagons helps you to fall asleep….
Good night and see you in ...
Yekaterinburg -- Europe!
... in the museum. Nothing was labeled in English and the tour was in Russian so it wasn't incredibly educational -- but was still fun. Today I had an hour-long adventure at the post office trying to mail a parcel -- first waited for about 20 minutes in the line I thought my best bet, but then got sent to another part of the post office once they figured out that I wanted international service. When I got to the front of the new line ...
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