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Moskau, Russland
... The Seven Sisters", uma enorme construção com sete arranha-céus ao estilo stalinista. Para ir para lá, pegamos um metrô e descemos na estação Вороб 00;ёвы го́ры (Vorobyovy Gory), "Sparrow Hills", que apesar de ser um pouco mais longe, valeu a pena. Esta estação fica em cima de uma ponte que atravessa o река ...
Kremlin, Lenin, Saint Basil's Cathedral
... is not a good place to be!! By the time we got to Lake Baikel I was in a bad way and had to spend all night and day in the room so missed it all :(
Feeling a lot better after a couple of days we boarded the last train to Mongolia.
I don't think we had really taken into consideration border controls and customs until Nimm told us that at 12 we would get to the Russian border and there we would have to get off the train and stand on the ...
Day 2 - London to Moscow
... tomorrow. Rode a couple of trains and ended up in Revolutionary Square and walked up into Red Square, really quite surreal, walking about Red Square at 11.30 at night.Lenin’s mausoleum was covered in scaffolding but the walls of the Kremlin looked pretty impressive as did the illuminated GUM store and St Basils Cathedral. Got some photographs but unable to upload them as lead in my big case which should be waiting on the ...
Jetlag Alters Math Ability
... 50 is not terrible. But then after ordering I remembered that my bottle of water was 60 rubles and $2! Lesson: there are 30 rubles In a dollar and Daniel just paid 15 dollars for a small salmon fillet; oh and I also got screamed at in Russian because I though I payed after I ate. Good times! Oh Russia :p. People watching in this airport has been quite ...
Rusland ontdekken, te beginnen bij Moskou
... waant.
Het centrum van Moskou was erg mooi en indrukwekkend met de vele kathedralen en kerken met gouden, ui-vormige torens en veelkleurige statige gebouwen. Binnen de muren van het Kremlin zijn maar liefst zes oude kathedralen. De grootste kathedraal van Moskou is echter een stuk nieuwer en stamt uit 1997. Op de locatie van deze kathedraal stond er vroeger al één, maar Stalin had de oude kathedral met de grond gelijk gemaakt om daar 'het paleis ...