Novgorod Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Novgorod is a very old town; which actually performed a roll as a capital before Russia "really" existed. The buildings here are very old, some dating from the 8th Century. One of the churches here feels like a smaller version of the Church of the Spilt Blood - only done with Fresco's rather than mosaics, and much much older! Shellie and I had t...

The overnight train from Moscow pulled into Novgorod at about 6am. We hopped into a taxi to the hotel from the train station. The cab was a typical russian old school taxi with a scary looking man behind the wheel. It was still dark and with the rain falling it was quite scary when we crossed a bridge and seemed to be heading out of the town int...

Although I have called this entry the Tran siberian Railway, technically Im not going the full length of it as Im cutting off before Vladivostok at Ulan Ude then heading South through Mongolia, across the Gobi desert and down to Bejing. So this is just the first leg of a 7,621 km (4,735 mile) train journey. (or it would more really as I started ...

Befuddled again by the weather, I woke up to perfectly clear blue skies, only to find everything had gone totally overcast after stepping out of the shower. Four days into my trip across Russia and I have yet to have a nice sunny day. What gives? The usual route into the country tends to involve a few days in St. Petersburg followed by an overni...

Velikiy Novgorod (Велик
080;й Новго 88;од) Novgorod is the most ancient Slavic city recorded in Russia. The chronicle first mentions it in 859, when it was already a major station on the trade route from the Baltics to Byzantium... READ MORE: Wikipedia entry on ...

Visite the company GAZ makers of Gaz vans and trucks and also of Volga cars. An amazing factory: Huge it was. The city was changed back to NN from Gorky and the G in GAZ is for Gorky. They have since bought LDV so things are looking up. Most people in NN drove Volga cars even though these were supposed to be the posh cars for the higher class co...