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Sunday, 16 Nov 2008 | Views [674]
Day 2 in St Petersburg, we saw: The Bronze Horseman (statue), Peter & Paul Fortress & Cathedral, a German pub, the Field of Mars & eternal flame, and several wedding parties. I tried caviar for the first time, and didn't like it. Day ... Read more >
Sunday, 16 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
St. Petersbrug
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Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [521]
The train trip from Moscow was uneventful. We slept for most of the 7 1/2 hour trip. For once there wasn't someone snoring in the cabin with us. We arrived at 6:30am. It was still pitch dark outside and the full moon was still quite high in the ... Read more >
Thursday, 13 Nov 2008 | Views [512]
First thing this morning, Michael and I got the metro to a market for some souvenir shopping. The metro at rush hour was mad - a sea of people, and the trains come about every 30 seconds. I read in a guidebook that more people use the Moscow metro ... Read more >
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 | Views [509]
What a brilliant city. I didn't expect Moscow to be this beautiful. The weather helps. It was well above 0 today and not a cloud to be seen. We went to the Kremlin this morning. While inside the Kremlin we visited a few churches. Inside the Archangel ... Read more >
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
Moscow metro
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Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
Moscow
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Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008 | Views [587]
We arrived into one of the many railway stations in Moscow early this morning, and fought our way to buy a metro ticket among masses of people. Our hostel is in a great location, only about a 10-15 minute walk from Red Square. We left our heavy packs ... Read more >
Monday, 10 Nov 2008 | Views [507]
Mike and I went to a Russian tapas-style place for lunch, and felt pleased with ourselves for deciphering the menu using the phrasebook (although we ordered one dish twice). After spending a couple of hours in a cheap internet cafe, we saw the latest ... Read more >
Monday, 10 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
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Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Views [513] | Comments [1]
A few hours sleep made us feel much better. I woke up with a terribly sore neck though. I think it's from sleeping on short beds, with hard pillows. Maybe I'm just getting old. Our hotel is horrible. It's another Soviet era disaster. The sink ... Read more >
Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
train
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Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
Yekaterinburg
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Saturday, 8 Nov 2008 | Views [652]
After only 1 day in Yekaterinburg, we left on Saturday 8 November on the 8.42am train to Nizhny Novgorod. We had 1st class tickets, so we had our own cabin. It turned out to be the best train yet, as we got fed a hot meal - for FREE! The man came around ... Read more >
Friday, 7 Nov 2008 | Views [359]
Michael and I arrived in Yekaterinburg Thursday evening, and got the metro to our hostel (another converted Soviet flat). Friday we visited the Church of the Blood, built and dedicated to the murdered last Tsar family, the Romanovs. It was an enourmous, ... Read more >
Thursday, 6 Nov 2008 | Views [370]
This was the longest leg of our trip, at 35 hours. We hopped on the train, that went from Irkutsk to Minsk, and shared a kupe with a sweet older Russian woman who was going to Novosibirsk and then flying home to Yakutsk in the faaar north. She bought ... Read more >
Thursday, 6 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
train
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Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
Krasnoyarsk
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Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [436]
We had to find somewhere to stay when we arrived in Krasnoyarsk. After walking the streets in the snow for half an hour or so, we found and checked into a gastinitsa (hotel) from the Soviet era that had a view onto the river, but a bath less than a ... Read more >
Tuesday, 4 Nov 2008 | Photo Gallery
train
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