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Rushing the Transiberian Railway
After the ice lake man-hauling adenture, I was pretty knackered and had thoughts of getting home fairly quickly. There were plenty of places on the way home I would ordinarily have visited but I found myself in a frame of mind where I wouldn't have made the most of them.
It was a fairly massive thing that lake and I just wanted to go home afterwards.
So I took the train four 87 hours straight to Moscow. I had a good laugh onboard with all the ...
Trans-Siberian Railway
... where to go. This will be my second train ride ever – first time was when I was younger going from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The platform was not posted on the time table until the train arrived, and after that we had exactly 20 minutes until the train would depart again.
My bunk is in Platzkart (3rd and lowest class). This class is an open wagon divided into cubes with four beds (2 top and 2 bottom as well as a table) and on the other ...
A Hidden Gem
... But neither were headed that way. Shaking his hand I thanked him with 'muchos spacibas' & indicated that I'd be fine. Off he went. Two cars passed in quick succession before the third one stopped to my unbelieving delight. Again more or less the same conversation played out, exhausting my limited Russian. But this lad had the slightest grasp of English, understanding more than he spoke. So we got through basic family info, what I liked about Russia, what Ireland was like, even ...
Day 177 - Moscow Bound Train Journey (Day 1)
... meet any other foreign ‘tourists’ at any of the stops). Olga shared her duties with a (more rare, male) Provinista named Dennis (pronounced Dee-niss) who was a much more reclusive and we presume must have been working while we were asleep as we rarely saw him…
In our carriage we frequently saw a young teenage boy named Alexi hanging around in the hallway. ...
Tour
... that have been preserved on Chaplygin Street. We drove by the Railway station but unfortunately could not stop there. We drove along Krasnyi Prospect, the city’s main and most beautiful street.
Then we went to Lenin Square. As in the majority of Russian cities, there is a Lenin monument in the center of the square. Behind the monument is the Opera and Ballet Theatre which is the largest in Russia. We ...