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Out into the country
Today we leave Moscow and head out into the country (about 4 hours out) - and the weather has turned ugly on us. It is raining as we leave the hotel, and gets worse as we go. To make matters worse, our guide tells us that they are having a Global Warming day in western Europe and Scandanavia, while we are getting a blast of cold air straight off the north pole.
Our first stop is a town called Vladimir, and we pick up a local guide to show ...
To historic cities and beyond
... take us straight
to where we wanted to go, but as with every trip we have been on, you are never
100% sure if you will make it to your desired destination. After once again
gluing my nose to the window and reciting the first few letters of the town’s
name in Russian Cyrillic, we got to where we wanted to be – in the pouring rain
– no surprise there! We took a battered old bus to the centre of the town and
followed ...
The bells are a ringing!
Are you still on the trail? Im in suzdal, Russia. We had just a short stay in suzdal, which is a small town not actually on the trans Siberian line, but about 50 km to the north. We arrive as usual I the morning and headed for the town with our Honcho, Nick - the very patient Nick. By this stage we were all starting to feel a bit tired and fatigued and tried to slow out pace down,which Nick couldn't quite grasp but went along with. It was in Suzdal that we saw a ...
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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