We love riding the rails How fantastic to have a couple of days with few people. Sounds like you enjoyed drinking with the staff. Looking for your next adventure.
Few questions. Great to hear you had a great time. 100 hours!!!!!!!!!!! Wow. How long does the train stop on each station? Can you do something appart from buying some food and drink? How much is it all, I mean, the trip? Hugs from Argentina.
Hola! Most stop are around 15 to 20 minutes. Price can vary quite a lot, but in general, it's cheaper than a one way flight from Europe to Asia. Moscow to Beijing is around 500-600usd...but you can get it lower...or more expensive...
Well....maybe no proper shower...but... Having a car for ourselves...and 2 ladies to clean it...we had also the toilet for ourselves...with a proper sink with proper hot water. There is no proper shower head....but that didn't stop us to be able to clean ourselves properly everyday.
The Ulan Baator-Beijing was another thing...32 hours...clean Chinese car when you go in...but useless train attendant...packed car...meaning, 3 hours after we left, it was dirty...and stay like this the all way. I'll speak about it on my next blog...
NICE..... YOUR KIDS ARE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD AND THEY WILL NEVER FORGET THAT, AN ESSENTIAL LESSON WHERE THEY LEARN HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
definitely very soviet for my travel back in time i would chose province of Belarus or Russia. Can you believe, that country was one of strongest against bolsheviks..and now it's the last in Europe of communist dictatorship. amazing how systems change society.
Well, if Kiev for 2 months, hope Vilnius at least for 2 weeks, but actuall at that period can be covered all Lithuania basically. Hope, you will like it. Greetings from Birzai :)
HI, FRIENDS I am planning Easter Europe for next year. I would like to include Berlin and Poland. I am from Argentina, you know that, and I would like to make the flight connection to Berlin. You took the train from Berlin, right? What is the cost? Did you go to Cracovia? My plan is to visit Prague-Vienne-Budapest and then Poland. Maybe I visit those 3 on a package and then I include Poland+Berlin on my own. How much is the train you took? Thank you for all the information you could give me.
Hola Graciela Trains around and departing from Germany are very easy to book on internet...and you can book them 3 months in advance. To give you an idea, Berlin-Warsaw, 5 hours train, was only 29 euros for three of us. It will the same story for Vienna. Everything involving Easter Europe on night train is pretty efficient, clean, and often can be booked just 24 hours ahead once you arrive in the city.
We love pierogi... and have them with kielbasa every Easter. Another great book about the ghetto uprising is "Mila 18" by Leon Uris...read it in middle school many years ago.
lucky kids! What a pair of lucky kids yours are!!, Europe-Asia by train is an amazing experience for anyone (or so I've heard!) but for kids that age must be unbelievable as they are young enough to be impressed by so much, and old enough to remember it!! On another note... you are slowly but steady ticking off all the things on my 'bucket list', so I am very grateful that I can, at least, live them through your blogs, while the moment comes to live them by myslef!! :D
What a wonderful; idea... giving your kids some roots. And planning this 24 months in advance...a year before going to Argentina! Too bad they couldn't have spent a whole semester there. But I look forward to reading about your next destinations.
I know what you mean about applying for visas from your resident country. My son, Will, got the paperwork from Bangor University that certified he was to be a student there so he could apply for his student visa. He presently has a non-immigrant B visa in Thailand where he is teaching English for the summer. The UK immigration authorities wanted him to fly to the U.S. to apply from there. I insisted he visit the British Consulate in Bangkok to ask if he could apply there. He can...has an appointment on Friday...with the visa due two weeks later...the day before he flies to Manchester. Crazy!
This blog is just short of 10 years old. We have now move to South Africa.
Why South Africa? Simple, great wine, great food, great golf and even more amazing diving! I will for once continue to blog from time to time about home. After all, this is just my fourth continent after having grow up in Europe, lived in Asia for twenty years, and even spent a full year living the life of Buenos Aires.
Come to visit....there is so much to do here! ... full info
GRACIELA
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HOW MUCH?
HOW MUCH WAS IT ALL? THE TRIP TO THE CAMP, STAY, ETC...?