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By The great adventure of Rayburn and V
October 15th 2008

YEKATERINENBURG

Europe » Russia » Urals » Yekaterinburg

Give us a look bro

15.10.08 Today is time to see what Yekaterinenburg has to show, and we have plenty of time. The start of the day is amazing. When Anatolij knocks on the door saying “breakfast is ready” we can hardly believe it! You would never expect it in a hostel, imagine there! Wonderful. Coffee, juice and plate with omelette, cheese and toast are waiting for us on the table. He sits with us an is a good opportunity to have a chat. He's learning English so we can communicate and we find out he's been running the hostel only for a few months and [View Full Entry]

By Alexandra D
October 14th 2008

life so far

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

well, its getting colder, but not as cold as i thought it would be. the weather likes to play tricks on muscovites, one day is freezing they next day u bundle up and end up sweating all day on the metro, at school, and at the bus stop. needless to say that is what happened to me yesterday. i had bought a new and cute hat on sunday and really wanted to wear to school. so i did, and i also wore my parka.....BAD IDEA. by the end of the day i smelled pretty badly haha, i came home and took [View Full Entry]

By The great adventure of Rayburn and V
October 14th 2008

PERM - YEKATERINENBURG

Europe » Russia » Urals » Yekaterinburg

Urals landscape

14.10.08 Km travelled 6464 The night has been absolutely horrible like every one that precedes an early departure. We arranged for a taxi the night before to pick us up, so few minutes after 6.00 am a young lady was waiting for us outside the hotel door. The sun comes out late here and it was still completely dark. It started raining as we arrived to the station. For some reason unknown to us, we had first class tickets. It was good actually, we had table, room for all our bags, comfortable seats, and TV! Still, it's been very tiring. Michael [View Full Entry]

By Nomad Old Farts
October 14th 2008

Russian Roulette at Moscow Airport

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

It was not my intention to add any further blogs from this trip, but a couple of unfortunate experiences with Russian immigration at Moscow Airport on the way home have prompted me to document the events in the hope that it may assist other travellers entering Moscow in the future. The main gripe was our treatment at the hands of the Russian immigration people at Domodedovo (Moscow) Airport, despite our carrying out visa instructions exactly as advised by the visa representative at the Russia Embassy in Sydney. Just by way of background, we had booked a total 4 weeks overseas holiday, [View Full Entry]

By The great adventure of Rayburn and V
October 12th 2008

KUNGUR ICE CAVE (PERM)

Europe » Russia » Volga » Perm

Double water illusion

12.10.08 Outside it's 2°. Today we've been walking under the first snow of our season. Apart from that today has been quite a failure. Thanks to the help of our receptionist we managed to get the bus to Kungur this morning. Everything in a rush as usual when it's about early morning! At the bus stop we meet Victor, an old man, very nice, that was probably curious about us and wanted to be helpful. We've been chatting for a while in this now familiar way, in different languages and with great help from gestures and mimic. When he got on [View Full Entry]

By lornamick
October 12th 2008

On board the trans-siberian!

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Irkutsk

Safety 1st when crossing railway tracks!!

When booking the trip we signed up for the "Russian Experience"....and we got so much more than that!!! :D We boarded the train in a freezing cold Moscow at 11pm at night. Ploughing along the platform with our light as a feather rucksacks....we bumped into 2 entertaining New Zealanders....Chris & Casey! Who we would get to know much better as they were a few cabins down from us on the train for the next 4 nights! We were kinda nervous who the other 2 people we would be sharing our cabin with....and lucky enough we only had to share with one. [View Full Entry]

By vkramer515
October 11th 2008

Indoor Downhill Skiing

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Indoor Dowhill Skiing
Real lifts and everything. Sochi could learn from this place!

We had frost a few mornings, but no snow; but that did not stop us from going downhill skiing on Friday! Yes, there is an INDOOR downhill ski rink here in Moscow (www.snej.com Russian only). Freddie recommended we try it out and we had tried once before but never made it so yesterday (Friday) we took a half day from work and headed to Moscow. We made a few stops along the way but go to the rink (I guess that is what you call it) around 5 PM yesterday. I really did not know what to expect and as best [View Full Entry]

By The great adventure of Rayburn and V
October 10th 2008

MOSCOW - PERM

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Red star on the Kremlin

10.10.08 Km travelled 6092 Time to leave Moscow and look forward has come. This morning we had the great news from Irkutsk that we could rearrange our booking, so we can spend more time in Mongolia! Wonderful. That's all we wanted. We get ourselves ready and pack everything in time to leave the room. After having abused of Igor twice yesterday to book our next trains, he seemed in such good mood today that when we went down to leave the key, we thought we could ask for the last ticket! We will always be grateful to Igor for being [View Full Entry]

By lornamick
October 10th 2008

Moscow

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Snooze in Estonia

On our first morning, had a "off the beating" track tour with Moscan woman called Lana. We strolled around some beautiful boulvards of the city towards the house (museum) of Russian dramatist Maxim Gorky....where we came across photos of George Bernard Shaw along with Gorky! Had some tasty Russian food and back to the hotel! On our final day....we went the famous Kremlin and the funky Intercession Cathederal! That night we boarded the train....on which we would spend the next four days & nights on!! Sharing a small cabin with a very large Russian woman called Lidia! Travellin [View Full Entry]

By The great adventure of Rayburn and V
October 9th 2008

MOSCOW - IZMAYLOVO MARKET, KITAY GOROD AND RED SQUARE

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Izmaylovo Market

09.10.08 Despite the first impression, it is now quite cold in town and time to wear gloves and hat. Today we want to relax a bit and take our time to wander. We got up a bit late, it was one of those mornings you just don't want to abandon the duvet! But we absolutely had to meet Igor so he could help us buy the train tickets on-line. Having done that and ready to go we head to the Izmaylovo Market, not too far from the city centre. I must admit that the major purpose of the trip was to [View Full Entry]

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