Ole and her friend

First few days in Moscow and Barnaul

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August 7th 2008
(Location: Barnaul, Russia) My travels got off to a slow start. Lufthansa canceled my flight and I was told I probably wasn’t leaving until the next day. It reminded me of a spin off of a Jeff Foxworthy joke: If you’re flight is canceled because workers are on strike, you might be a Euro, or at least dealing with them. Leaving the next day was especially ironic given that my mother in-law ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Barnaul

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more