Rosa Vetrov Novgorod

... things coming back to the States.

3. American food - I mean not just the typical hamburger, french fries, grilled cheese American food. I mean corn and berries and watermelon and bbq and pizza and bagels and so much more. I never realized the exciting variety of food available in the States until I was away from it for more than a month. I can't wait to move from the repetitive grains + cabbage fare into a world of variety and choice!

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... constantly for the past 4 months. All in all it was a very worth while trip!This last week I am going to be running around doing the tourist thing and fortunately it looks like I am going to be met with some decent weather. I'll be writing more soon after a couple days of cultural saturation!

... et visiter dans la ville. Le lendemain, un ami francais a eux nous guide dans la ville. Encore une fois il fait super beau (on commence a etre habitué). La ville est superbe et on arrive facilement a se ballader sans croiser des grosses avenues polluées. A midi, on deguste notre premier borch, pas mal... mais ca remplit le ventre que temporairement ! On appercoit des pecheurs sur la Oka gelée ...

Premiere vraie galere, pourtant c'etait bien partis, j'avais pris mon billet pour Kazan (en Russie, les billets s'achetent a la gare de depart), mais apres avoir marche sous une pluie battante avec du vent et 6 petits degres (affiches a la sortie de la gare, les chiffres qui apparaissent ici, sont des chiffres veritables) a la recherche d'un hotel ni rase ni ferme et ayant ...

Day 121. The last golden ring city 13/8/08 Velikiy Novgorod (literally, Great New-City) is the oldest city in Slavic Russia, dating back to 859. In the 11th century St Sophia Cathedral was built and from there the city prospered as a trading post controlling most of NE Europe. This was until Moscow became the all powerful center in the 15th century. So like most of the golden ring, it became a back water ...

... taken left, right and centre! Peter then decided he wanted to go to some monastery about 1km from the Kremlin. Unfortunately it wasn't on the map so we wondered around for ages looking for it but to no avail. Pete was insisting we should have took the lower road so we back tracked and eventually came across it. We also found a ski jumping slope, which looked in a rather poor condition. However, we had no idea how to get ...

Niznij Novgorod (Gorky). Km 461 of the Trans-Siberian-Railway. A big vibrant industrial center of Volga region. More ...

... translators. They've all also been to the US, usually in very random states like Idaho. So some memorable things to note. The professor said, "Democracy is the downfall of culture." He seemed to miss the communist days a bit. The Australians talked a lot...but they were Australian so yeah. One girl out of the 10 actually talked, while conferring with her friends in Russia. They don't like America. They think we ...

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.

... use the washroom... and it was beautiful! Once we met at the bus, we were on our way to Novgorod! The bus ride was only a couple hours, and was appreciated by me because we were able to catch up on some sleep. By this time in the trip I was able to fall asleep on the bus fairly easily! Which is surprising for me! At Novgorod we picked up our local guide and went to the oldest Kremlin in Russia. Inside the Kremlin we saw the Cathedral of St. Sophia and the Millennium of ...