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Visit to the Golden Ring
Sixth Pit Stop: The Golden Ring, Russia (Rossiya) SUZDAL, RUSSIA Suzdal, although virtually unknown in the West, was one one of the most famous towns in Russian history. Like an untouched medieval open-air museum, Suzdal was endowed with well preserved fortified castle walls, monasteries, cathedrals, and convents. After being founded in 1024 by …
Stunning domes
Another town with stunning onion-shaped domes, some golden and the ones of the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral nice blue star-spangled which dates back to 1225. Let the pictures show you...
One thing to mention, dinner was chicken cooked in a clay pot followed by Vodka, delicious.
Out into the country
... the other. We haven't been sure if the restaurants are in a hurry to get rid of us, but our guide explains that it is Russian custom to feed guests in this assembly-line fashion - that it is considered rude to make your guests wait between courses.
Unsurprisingly, we are finished quite early - until we find that vodka is $3 a shot, so we order up a few rounds while waiting for the rain to ease off a bit, then make the trek back to the ...
To historic cities and beyond
... a little board and
possibly even disappointed by what we had seen.
Travelling certainly isn’t a holiday as being on the move constantly is
time consuming and stressful, but once you relax into it, it becomes a lot
easier and you don’t tend to let the small things bother you as much – like the
tiny language barrier and the fact that most people’s English is probably about
as good as our Russian!!
Getting ...
The bells are a ringing!
... actually flavoured you just would think of! So the ladies, cowgirl, Nick and I did a massive tasking of 10 of the meads. My least favourite was pine ad rose (go figured) and I think the best was bergamot, most of them were only just drinkable and a few not palatable at all. We all made some purchase of local gifts and souvenirs and were on our way again. So much moving around I think we were all looking forward to the next penultimate destination. Our ...