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By Layla and Ste
September 26th 2009

Moscow Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

P1000645

So...we arrived in Moscow after our overnight train which got in at 4am!! We decided to wait around in the train station till it got light, managed to get a little bit of sleep until some security guys woke us up, turns out they just wanted to move the chairs around, so we just moved to some others, but couldn't get back to sleep. Surprisingly there were actually quite a few people about doing the same thing. We had booked a hostel called the Trans-Siberian Hostel as they had some good rates on a double private room (about time after [View Full Entry]

By Rich_and_Kel
September 25th 2009

St. Petersburg Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

Cathedral of Spilt Blood 1

After a very late night madly packing up the house and quick run across Heathrow Terminal 5 as they called our names for the last call, we started our Round the World in St. Petersburg. It was a pretty cold start and took us a while to work out what was going on with the language but we managed to survive the 3 days here by finding the two restaurants that had an English menu (that weren't McDonalds). Some very impressive buildings intermingled with some beautiful 60s tower blocks. Beer of the week : Baltika 3 - cheapest beer they had [View Full Entry]

By NomadAdrift
September 24th 2009

From Russıa With Love Europe

St Basil's Basilica.

After being told "impossible" by two tour agents, five visits to the Russian Embassy, prebookıng my accomadatıon in Moscow, as well as prebooking my Trans-Siberian train ticket, changing my out going flight from Moscow by a mere 24 hours, obtaining two different invitations into Russia, completing the paperwork twice since the online forms were invalid, and paying the 131 dollar processing fee... in US bills printed in 97' or newer only... I was able to procure a 6-day transit visa the day before I had to leave Mongolia for the 101 hour, 6300km journey across the Iron Curtain. A [View Full Entry]

By Layla and Ste
September 24th 2009

St Petersburg Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

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Hello again!!! So we arrived in St Petersburg after our overnight train from Lithuania, train was quite an experience. Basically there is 1st Class not sure what its like, then 2nd class which is 4 beds in a private compartment with a bed on top of the other and then 3rd class which is called Plaskart, which is an open compartment, similar to 2nd class but no privacy, so like one big dorm, except there are 54 beds squeezed into a carriage aboutn 10 metres long! We of course decided to go Plaskart (cheapest!!) and got allocated 2 top bunk beds. [View Full Entry]

By AshleyNathan
September 24th 2009

Trans manchurian - Moscow to Beijing in 7days Europe » Russia » Siberia

bloody freezing!!!

it felt like id just escaped moscow as winter was setting in as the two hour wait for the train seemed to take forever in subzero temperatures, i finally boarded at 12midnight looking like an eskimo relieved to be in the warm and finally on my way to china. we were in a little compartment with 4 beds, two huge russian women below and a swedish guy i met at the station across, the scenery was faily boring for the first day as trees were followed by more trees then more and then as if we hadnt seen enough just a [View Full Entry]

By Sorry but we are not at home
September 23rd 2009

St Petersburg Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

Hi Guys, first posting hereby. Made it to STP on Monday, nice place. Add Budapest to Amsterdam and divide by 2, then you get a feeling for the city :o) Went to Hermitage, saw the Aurora ship and enjoyed nightlife so far. My rusty russian knowledge is kinda useful. Tonight we head off to Moskow by nighttrain, more story telling from their! Agnes [View Full Entry]

By kue
September 23rd 2009

14. - 16. Sept 09; Иркутck - Улаанбаатар (Irkutst Ulaanbaatar), Mongolische Zugdrachen Europe » Russia » Siberia

Kurz nach Ulan Ude

Ich treffe die Zürcherinnen Bogi und Aka (Name d. Red. bekannt.) in Irkutsk, die beiden und der Schwabe (ganz wichtig, kein Deutscher, sondern Schwabe) Tim vertreiben uns die Zeit im Zug Richtung Mongolei mit Kartenspielen wie Gemsch, Arschlöchle, sowie Fressen und Tee Trinken. Instant Herdöpfelstock und Nudelsuppe wird wieder meine Standardnahrung. Wie schon in den vorangegangen Wagen der TransSib hat es, einen mit Kohle beheizten, Heiswasser Behälter an Bord jedes Wagens. Super für Tee, Kaffee und Suppe. Auch die 7 Stunden an der Russisch - Mongolischen Grenze am nächsten Tag vergehen re [View Full Entry]

Komischer Friedhofm an der Russisch - Mongolischen Grenze

By Mandaz
September 22nd 2009

Onto Red Square and Moscow! Europe » Russia

THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2009 - RUSSIA Long bus day today as we had to drive from Novgorod into Moscow. That meant it was an early start- with breakfast at 6:45am and on the bus at 7:10am. Most people slept for the first few hours on the bus which is pretty normal - with our first stop being at around 9:30am for coffee and toilets. Back onto the bus for another few hours until midday when we stopped at basically a roadside café/diner. It was raining so they had decided to feed us in there rather than sit outside in the [View Full Entry]

By Sam en Lieve
September 19th 2009

москва Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Rode plein

Moscow Woensdag 16 september is het dan eindelijk zo ver... We vliegen richting Moscow. Na een goede vlucht en lang aanschuiven bij de douane worden we gelukkig zonder problemen binnengelaten. Vladimir (een collega van mijn neef die in Moscow woont) staat ons op te wachten aan de luchthaven en de afgelopen dagen zijn we dan ook bij hem en zijn vrouw te gast. Donderdag bezochten we het rode plein, het mausoleum van Lenin, het graf van Stalin en de Bassilikathedraal. Tussendoor gingen we ook naat naar het GYM, het grootste en duurste shoppingscentrum van Moscow. Vrijdag was het dan d [View Full Entry]

By SamandLaura
September 18th 2009

Olkhon Island, Crossing the border into China Europe » Russia » Siberia » Lake Baikal

Hi All We're in Guilin now, but before we reveal all on that particular subject, we will update you with what went on at Lake Baikal on Olkhon Island... We spent three days on the island, in the most beautiful surroundings, in a little wooden guest house. Olga, our host, cooked us great food (normally Omul fish - unique to Lake Baikal), and with no showers, we used the banya (extremely hot sauna) to keep 'clean'. Even the long-drop toilet didn't smell too bad. We did an excursion to the far side of the island on our first full day, which [View Full Entry]

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