Camping, Saraysky Beach

Island life

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September 16th 2006
So i'm in a hospital, on an island, in the middle of the largest lake in the world, in siberia.. The tv's on in the corner of the surgery, my translator swears he's with the KGB, & the doctor is asking me if it's true that we send busloads of Kiwi girls out into the country to marry farmers. 'Didn't r-e-a-l-l-y expect to be here. We've been in Russia for just over a week now, 20 days until we k ... 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