odyssey 224

some catch up photos!

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August 30th 2008
Hi everyone! I know this is quite delayed but I thought we better finish off this blog properly, even though we've been back in Oz for 3 weeks. terrible! I was so keen to do this for the first part of the trip. But as time went by and we found ourselves in more and more remote places, you just sort of loose the need or desire to keep in touch with the world back home. The feeling of isolation is ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Irkutsk

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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