Kazan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today Russia awaits us. Rick makes coffee and we're on the road....and what a road! It started as ruined undulating tarmac which was an early test for our suspension with heavily laden bikes and a Landy full of bling. Then the roadworks. Roadworks in Russia means ripping up most of the tarmac leaving trucks,bikes, cars and vans to make their ow...

              So I found a new favorite word.  A word that I know that I will use until the day I die and one that you, my dear friends, will be sick of in a matter of moments when I get home.  I've used it several times in my blogs and I am almost sure that you know exactly what I am about to say.. Koshmar.  The word for nightmare. I know that ...

Another Liz note, but this is so true...  In fact it was at our place and most of the blame was on me... I can't cook, what can I say?? How to fail an American Breakfast in Russia 1. Go to the Produkti. Try to find bacon. Try to find sausages. Try to find something that could be a pancake and/or blini mix. Fail. Epic Fail. 2. Find a fifty cent b...

So we get back to Kazan.  It seems dismal compared to Moscow.  I now understand why the Stanford students thought it was so boring but we had one big, bright light at the end of the tunnel.... dinner with the volleyball Olympic champion.  It was a Thursday night and it was snowing heavily, but we (Kristen, Hope and I) wrapped ourselves up and he...

We take the train from Kiev to Moscow. We find that we are in the wrong train station to buy a ticket for Kazan, so we get a taxi to the right one. "you know"," the taxi driver says (who's name is Paul... really Paul??) "you got the only English speaking taxi driver in the whole city." He was nice and very hospitable and frankly, I liked him so ...

nous sommes dans le train, ne faisons que passer! in the train, just passing by!

Hello, I'm now in Kazan, city half othodox half muslem. If you want to have a look go to : http://www.kazan1000.ru/eng/history/eng kazan.htm http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/culture/photog allery/ They celebrated the 1000 years of the city 2 years ago, and built an amazing Mosque in the middle of the old Kremlin: http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/20 ...

The grand trek east has begun and yet I'm back to square one on the weather. After the long-awaited beautiful blue skies of yesterday, I woke up to bleak greys and cold this morning. Ninth day in the country and the eighth one to be dominated by clouds . . . seriously what's up with this? All these fabulous promotional photos of Mother Russia un...

More long days of straight line driving. We feel we are competing in a lorry overtaking marathon. Today we must have passed over 300 lorries on what really feels like a poorly surfaced B road.