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What happens when you put 4000 reindeer together
Published: May 20th 2012Europe » Russia » Northwest » Kola Peninsula
April 30th 2012
The mountainside rumbled under the hooves of 4,000 reindeer. When you put such a huge number of this species together, something very strange but well documented by science happens, and was taking place on a mountain on Arctic Russia’s Kola Peninsula at that moment: the reindeer were galloping around and around in a giant, perfectly-formed ring five hundred meters long and a dozen animals thick all the way around. Over the course of a day this grunting, snorting, mass of constantly circling animals was driven carefully down from the snowy heights, over the short, springy, brown vegetation that covered the boulder-strewn lower slopes and into the tundra and forest below. In this way the indigenous Saami reindeer herders began their Spring migration. I had arrived on Kola a few days previously after a 33-hour train ride ... read more
April 28th 2012
W UE już chyba nie jest to możliwe... Natomiast Nasi rosyjscy bracia nadal palą w miejscach publicznych w tym nawet na lotnisku całkiem legalnie :) Cóż... Co kraj to obyczaj :D... read more
April 4th 2012
Woke up to snow - lots of it. Arrived in Moscow early morning happy to be there feeling as if the travelling adventure had really begun. We navigated our way through the metro to our hostel without a hitch. Tina was really pleased that yet again her choice of accommodation was spot on - this hostel had been booked for the resident cat Basil - he was an enormous black and white cat with a strong Russian accent. The hostel - basically a guys apartment had everything we needed. One of the most striking things about Russia is the scale of everything - huge. We made the most of the first day visiting Red Square, walking round the outside of the Kremlin and the GUM(!) an up market shopping centre on the square. We made it ... read more
Polyglotism or another way of traveling
Published: April 4th 2012Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow » Noginsk
April 4th 2012
привет! After my begginers level achievement in Rusian I will start now with Chinese lessons. I'll try to keep up with Rusian moving into another level... My languages... Portuguese (my native language) is the 6th most spoken language in the world - 250 million speakers. Spanish - wich I dominate since I was young - is the 3rd most spoken language in the world - very useful if you're traveling to South America, West Coast USA (California) or even Europe. Very easy to master if you speak portuguese. English is also teached at elementary until now... Netheless to say it is the most important languange to "get arround" in today's world, doing business or traveling, english is crucial... I am also upgrading my level with hospitality management english through the next 3 years. Rusian wasn't that ... read more
Last day in St. Petersburg, first day in Moscow
Published: April 1st 2012Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow
April 1st 2012
Hello folks, Another day, another city, but first i'll recap what we got up to on our last day in St. Petersburg. Managed to rouse ourselves fairly early, no beer haze this morning, and took ourselves off to the State Hermitage Museum, just around the corner from our hostel. Russian's like to rinse your money if you aren't one of them, so admittance was 400 rubles, around £10, 4 times the amount a Russki would pay. The building is very impressive. Founded by Catherine the Great in 1764, it has the largest art collection in the world (not that we were bothered), and holds over 3 million items, some of which are Egyptian relics, armour and weapons, Siberian antiques, to name but a few. We mosied our way round, taking about 3 hours to do so, ... read more
March 31st 2012
V Moskve jsme stravili 5 dni a moc si to uzili. Krome exkurse po moskevskem metru, jehoz stanice jsou umelecke skvosty jsme diky kamaradum navstivili vetsinu pametihodnosti mesta vcetne nocniho vyletu na Rude Namesti. Pocasi nam pralo, neb byla prava ruska zima se snehem a teplotami az -15C. Foto lze mozno videt na www.helcakamil.rajce.net We spent 5 days in Moscow and thanks to our friends, we visited most of the interesting sites in town. Weather was good, nice russian winter with sun and snow. Pictures are on www.helcakamil.rajce.net... read more
March 30th 2012
One time in a year at the beginning of September a place near a historical village Borodino turns into a field of an epic battle reconstructions. More then 2000 people take a part in this event, making a historical reconstruction of the greatest battle between French and Russian armies, happened on 7th of September in 1812. Borodinskoe field knows not only the French conquerors. In the 2nd World War there was a battle between German and Russian armies and the other day you can see a reconstruction of 1945 year. Please, see the pictures of the greatest battles of Borodino.... read more
