Blogs from Moscow, Northwest, Russia, Europe - page 8

Day 8 - Moscow Dave F had found an old style behemoth of a soviet hotel for us for the next two nights, so Friday morning we packed up the car and drove over there to check in. Today we were tourists pure and simple, with the Kremlin, St Basils and Gorky park on the agenda. It was a beautiful day so we walked into the city centre, foregoing the metro. We were all carrying our documents with us because Russian immigration police are known to do spot checks. Given that the next day Moscow would be hosting its biggest national event in a decade with national leaders in attendance, we expected security to be tight. Whilst there were police everywere however, no one was interested in us. I was also quickly revising my assumptions of ... read more

A long train journey through several countries has always been on my bucket list so upon retirement myself and my travel companion decided it was time to knock it off the list. We planned to begin our adventure in Moscow, following a holiday in Europe, and take the Trans-Mongolian Train (the most popular of the three routes crossing Siberia) from Moscow to Beijing. Planning was key to this journey and after months of research and discussion we opted to book through a travel agent and the one that seemed to suit us best and was very flexible was an Australian company called “FlowerTravel”. The reason we chose ‘Flower Travel’ was it allowed us to pick and choose our own itinerary - where to stop off and for how long. However as we flew from Spain to ... read more

Geo: 55.75, 37.62 GÜN 02 GÜNLERDEN HALA CUMA: Salihlerin yanında oturan bir çiftle yer değiştirerek ,aynı sıraya menemen testisi gibi dizildik.Geceyi uçakta geçirdik Sabah yerel saatle 06:15 te Moskova Sheremetyevo Hava limanına vardık .Bizi, direkt transfer ettiler ve transfer salonlarına kurulduk … Tuvaletler var ama kullanmazsanız iyi olur diyorum yani…Saat 12:00 ye kadar oyalandık.... sonra uçağımıza binmek üzere kalkış salonuna gittik …herhangi bir hareket yok …Sonradan kavrıyoruz ki kard... read more

Hey everyone.... I just wanted to put some thoughts down on paper and maybe get some feedback for my next long trip that I am currently planning after finishing my contract in Turkey mid next year. I have several options that I am strongly considering and had to change some original planning due to recent developments. Anyway, if any of my followers have been to some of these places your feedback and links to a blog you have written about them would be greatly appreciated Or if you just would like to share your thoughts that would be great as well. So with that below are my route options For July/august 2015 with a time frame of 4-6 months of traveling.... 1. India/Sri Lanka/Burma 2. Eastern Europe and the Balkans Eliminated from consideration 3. China/South Korea/Taiwan/japan/Philippines/Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore/Myanmar ... read more

We set foot in Moscow on a crisp, cloudless evening, the cold winds driving away any lingering thoughts of our long journey. Dressed in bulky jackets, a few people fumbled for cameras as we waited for the shuttle that would take us from the airport to the city. Most of the class had made the journey as the trip coincided with our university’s spring break, but winter still reigned in Russia. One of the perks of studying at a space university is being granted access to the facilities of national space agencies. In this case, it was to visit the premises of the one of the oldest and most successful space agencies – the Russian Federal Space Agency. Having grown up reading the stories of the space race, of Sputnik and Gagarin, we could hardly contain ... read more