St. Basil's Cathedral in the snow

November 19th 2008
I thought I'd write something because I have a few minutes free on the internet at the hostel. We're leaving Moscow tomorrow- we are going on the train to Irkutsk which is the city nearest to Lake Baikal. It's a 5-day non-stop journey!! We're quite nervous about it but really excited at the same time. We'll be crossing the Urals into Asia and crossing loads of time zones as when we get there we'll ... read more

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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

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journey to the east

tristanandcharlie

We're travelling from the UK to China to take up a teaching post in Shandong Province from Jan-Sept 09. We leave the UK in November 08 and fly to Tallinn, Estonia. We then cross the boarder in to Russia and travel to St. Petersburg then Moscow where we'll set off on the Trans-Siberian Railway. At Lake Baikal we will head south through Mongolia; arriving in Beijing by Christmas. In January we will make our way to Zibo where we will be teaching English until September. We'll try and keep our blog up to date. Hope you enjoy reading it! Update: We have a new job and we're staying in China ... full info

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