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By shaun dellavedova
September 4th 2009

Anna Karenina, a bottle of Vodka and the Trans Siberian Railway Europe » Russia » Siberia » Krasnoyarsk

Leaving Moscow

The Trans Siberian railway is a long way. There is no way around it. Our portion of it (by no means the whole length) was 83 hours, 5193 kilometers and 79 stops. At least for this journey we were in second class, which meant only 4 of us in a compartment, a door that we could actually close and beds that were just long enough to fully stretch out. While most of the people on the tour decided to buy whole bunches of food for the journey I bought just enough to get me through the first afternoon and breakfast the [View Full Entry]

By TheWholeOrchestra
September 4th 2009

Arrived a week ago. Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

Churchof Our Savior On Spilled Blood

A lot has happened since then but I haven't time to write about it now. But I have a few picture's that won't take long. [View Full Entry]

By SamandLaura
September 3rd 2009

We're here! Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Hallo! Only got time for a very quick hello, but just wanted to let you know we're here safe and having a great time. The weather is glorious, and cyrillic is impossible. Ordering non-alcoholic beer has to be a first in Russia! We will make a longer posting when we get the chance and in particular, will be in touch with some of you individually to let you know what we've been up to. Only on a borrowed computer at the hostel at present - but we will attempt to use it again later today. Hope you're all well Sam and [View Full Entry]

By kue
September 3rd 2009

Blutende Köpfe und bemalte Ozzies, warum ich Petersburg liebe, Woche 2 Europe » Russia

Vladi Lenin, die alte Drecksau

Fidel, Belgrad und Dadja. Das sind die Plätze an welchen ich mich richtig wohl fühle und mir die Nächte um die Ohren schlage. So etwas wie eine Mini Barstreet im Herzen von Petersburg. „Do it like the locas do“ war schon immer mein Motto und so kaufen wir unsen Booze direkt neben der Bar in einem 24h Shop und trinken ihn auf der Strasse vor der Bar. Der geschätzte Schalldruck von 120db in der Bar ist sowieso nicht die beste Trommelfellpflege. Was bei uns die Albaner sind hier die Kasachen, welche sich mit ihren getunten Karren Rennen in der mit Menschen [View Full Entry]

By Eddie77
September 1st 2009

Moscow Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Moscow
Borsht

Peoples, The first update since my arrival in Moscow last saturday, no worries me and my buddies are doing pretty well in the land of glasnost & perestroijka! Flying to Moscow friday was quite an experience as I was the only traveller who didn't have the russian nationality :) Checking in at the Dublin airport went fairly smooth, even saw a familiar face in the fella who issued my visa a few weeks ago :p random! Anyhoe, S7 airlines flew under 4 hours to Moscow where I landed at 6am. Pretty wasted as I only slept for an hour or so, [View Full Entry]

By JB Marilyn
August 31st 2009

Final stop in Russia: Vladivostok Europe » Russia » Far East » Vladivostok

in the train with vova

Yes, Yes, Yes, We did it !!! 9289km by train !!! Finally arrived in Vladivostok ;-) For the second part of the Trans-Siberian, we shared the room with a ... military guy !!! Funny, in Russia, we've met almost only people working in the Marines... It's like in this country, if you can't become a gangster... euh meaning an Oligark, you're future is in the Army !!! With this guy, Vova, we experienced the same type of relationship as we already did here: you need 2 days to start having a friendly relationship even if we didn't share the same language... [View Full Entry]

By kue
August 30th 2009

28 bis 30 8.09, Tag 5,6,7, Са́нкт-Петербу́рг, St. Petersburg, das Venedig des Nordens Europe » Russia » Northwest » Saint Petersburg

church of spilled blood

Den richtigen Bus zu finden welchen einen an die richtige Metrostation bringt, um dann an der richtigen Haltestelle nach dreimaligem umsteigen wider auszusteigen ist ne kleine Odyssee. Angeschrieben wird, wenn überhaupt, in Kyrillischen Buchstaben. Ne gute Übung für China, lesen wird zu „Bilder vergleichen“. Was sofort auffällt in Peterburg ist, dass Gott wohl ein wenig unfair war bei der Werkzeugausgabe als es darum ging, die Suppe der Schönheit zu verteilen. Den Frauen gab er einen riesen Suppenlöffel und den Männern ne Gabel… Stört mich soweit nicht. Das „Sou [View Full Entry]

By shaun dellavedova
August 29th 2009

Eluding James Bond in Peterhof Europe » Russia » Northwest » Peterhof

Hydrofoil

About 20 kilometers outside St Pete, Peterhof is a palace along the vein of Versailles in Palace and is renowned for its fountains. While you can get there by train or bus (or helicopter if you are in a hurry), the coolest way of getting there is by hydrofoil. Six of us had decided to go out to visit the palace and had never been on a hydrofoil, so that was the obvious, if expensive method of transport. Sitting down in the boat I visions that I was in a Bond movie: I was one of the guys running the bad [View Full Entry]

By shaun dellavedova
August 29th 2009

A cooking lesson in Suzdal Europe » Russia » Centre » Suzdal

Suzdal

Any time that you arrive in a town at 5.35am you know that it is going to be a long day. When the day ends with 10 shots of vodka, you can be pretty sure that the next day will be even longer. We took an overnight train (third class once again) from St Pete, through Moscow to Vladimir. We got in to Vladimir at 4.55am and took a van to Suzdal, one of the towns in the Golden Ring. Suzdal was the first capital of Russia, before Moscow was even founded. In fact, a prince of Suzdal was the founder [View Full Entry]

By Toolman
August 28th 2009

Leg 4 - Russia Europe » Russia » Northwest

The trip so far...
London to Russia

Even before I had infiltrated Russian territory I was nearly arrested for taking a photo of a Welcome to Russia sign. This highly photogenic stone-carving was not supposedly posed for photographs. Entering Russia was the bureaucratic, process-driven, lesson in paperwork, that I had been warned to expect. In some ways I'd have been disappointed if it was too straightforward after all that hype. Firstly we had to have our documents inspected at a Border control point, which was followed by immigration, then customs, and finally a checkpoint to make sure the previous 3 gatekeepers had correctly [View Full Entry]

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