North-West

On this trip wwe leave our casa rodante behind as it doesn't float and take a ship to see the islands in the North Sea and the North Atlantic.

6 months in Christchurch New Zealand 2009 Studying at the University of Canterbury, staying in the dorms there, backpacking during the break, and a big roadtrip around the North island afterward

Our first day of the trip was Sapa and now it was on to the next 5 days which were the days in our trip I was most concerned about( because the areas were not normal tourist routes) before leaving Australia. I shouldn't have worried at all. It was ...

I headed out yesterday morning to see if I could cross over into Jericho in the West Bank (currently occupied by Israel). I got down to the border at about 10am (about 2kms from the hotel), and the car was placed in a line of about 20 cars that were ...

... These are the words to describe how beautiful St. Petersburg is. Founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as "The Window To The West," St. Petersburg soon became the capital of Russia for almost 300 years until 1918 when Moscow was elected as the new capital of ...

... the tour we headed back to the hostel after picking up some yummy bakery things for lunch (baked goods are getting progressively better the further west I go) and had a bit of a break, before I headed out to have a bit more of a look around the city. I ...

... in the late 1600s.  He designed and built the city of St. Petersburg on swampland on the Baltic Sea as his "window to the west" and designed it in the style of western cities.  He also forced his boyars (nobles)to come pay tribute to him there ...

... hundred years. It stopped being the capital after the Russian Revolution of 1917 led by Lenin. It is called the "Venice of the North" due to the numerous canals crossing the city. We got into St. Petersburg on Wednesday morning at 6.30am, after an 8 hour ...

... ; This time, visiting St. Petersburg for the White Night Festival. The sky stays bright at night.    They say, St. Petersburg is Venice of the North.  Well, check these pictures, you would be able to know it better. Have a good day. ...

... " ...... guess who went and bought bottled water!!  I had heard of of St Petersburg being described as "The Venice of The North", a title we discovered that is well deserved.   One of the first thing we did was go an a canal tour.  ...

... Lenin died, it was named Leningrad until 1991 when the name returned to St. Petersburg.  It is known as the Venice of the North with 42 islands and 300 bridges (21 draw bridges). Gayla was our city guide for the day.  We drove to the Smolnyy ...