Draft beer, on tap, to go = Best Thing Ever

Transiberian Part 2

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August 18th 2011
Part 2: I made friends with 3 Russian girls who were teaching Russian at Khovd University. They all live in a town called Barnaul, about 4-5 hours south of Novosibirsk and when they left Khovd, I promised to visit. Sasha, the girl we’d be staying with arranged for her friends to pick us up from the train station and drive us to the bus station, where they put us on a bus to Barnaul. I have n ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia

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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