- 3 and 4 August - it must be OmskThe overnight journey from Yekaterinburg involved our first encounter with two Russians drinking vodka. Alexander and mikhail. They mistook Roderick for Sean Connery and Robert for Robert de Niro. A few more vodkas and they stalked us to our Posted by mkmp in Trans Siberian 2011 | Aug 2, 2011
- 3 August - honey vodka breakfast shotshttp://db.tt/wsigBYr
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- Day 15 Moscow DiaryHello people!
Today was fabulous! Went to the Kremlin, its massive inside the red walls! There are 4 churches inside, one if them has the tombs of previous Tsars! Went into the Chamber of Amoury, that was pretty awesome, they had Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 7, 2011
- Day 15 Moscow Photos
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- Day 14 Moscow DiaryHello!
Went to visit our local church, very nice! The Church of our Saviour was blown up by Lenin, and has been completley rebuilt. Its the biggest church in Russia! It is really hot here, so didn't do much else besides Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 6, 2011
- Day 14 Moscow Photos
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- Day 13 Moscow DiaryPriviet folks!
We're in Moscow! Yay! Siestered when we got to the apartment as only got a few hours sleep on the train! It didn't set off until midnight! Woke up around 1pm, chilled, and had a bath in brown Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 5, 2011
- Day 12 St Petersburg to Moscow DiaryHey everyone!
We left the apartment at 9pm, our feet were aching, but somehow we managed to drag our suitcases to our local metro, Baltiskaya. We needed to travel 4 stops to reach the train station. You buy tokens 1st, and Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 4, 2011
- Day 12 St Petersburg Photos
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- Day 12 St Petersburg to Moscow PhotosSent from Samsung Mobile
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- Day 12 St Petersburg DiaryHey all.
Apologies, having some problems uploading photos today. Should have it sussed soon!
Had a brilliant but exhausting trip to Peterhof, which took about 30 minutes on the hydrafoil. Love hydrafoil's! It was a really hot day, did lots of walkin Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 4, 2011
- Day 12 St Petersburg Photos
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- Day 11 St Petersburg DiaryHello all,
Started the day quite hungover! Decided to stay in and recover. Eat some food, watched a film then went back to bed. Woke around 7pm, had tea and a shower and walked to Nevsky Prospekt. Found an Englisg Guided Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 3, 2011
- Day 11 St Petersburg Photos
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- Day 10 St Petersburg DiaryHey everyone!
Woke up and made a brew and breakfast, discovered we are rubbish at shopping, as the milk turned out to be yoghurt and minerale water was actually soda water. Had to go shopping again!
Started today on Nevsky Prospekt, large Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 2, 2011
- Yekaterinburg - 2 AugustYekaterinburg was fun. We arrived in a new time zone and treated ourselves to cabs to our hotel. The hotel magister was unusual. No ramp to access the reception and then no lift meant a Herculean effort to carry Posted by mkmp in Trans Siberian 2011 | Aug 1, 2011
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- Day 10 St Petersburg PhotosSent from Samsung Mobile
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- Day 10 St Petersburg PhotosSent from Samsung Mobile
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- Day 10 St Petersburg PhotosSent from Samsung Mobile
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- Day 10 St Petersburg PhotosSent from Samsung Mobile
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- Day 9 St Petersburg DiaryPriviet!
Set off on mammouth walking tour, saw pretty blue St Nicholas church. Then Mariniisky Theatre - green building best opera and ballet in the city! Check out the picture of the programme! Walked along pretty canals and bridges, came to Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 1, 2011
- Day 9 St Petersburg Photos
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