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- Day 9 St Petersburg Photos Sent from Samsung Mobile [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/398586/3_13122 Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 1, 2011
- Day 9 St Petersburg Photos Sent from Samsung Mobile [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/398586/3_13122 Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Aug 1, 2011
- Day 8 St Petersburg DiaryHey all, Sunday was a lovely chilled out day. Apartment is beautiful! We found our local shops and a cash machine! The view from here is lovely over the Fontanka river. Its a little taxing having to walk the 3 Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Jul 31, 2011
- Day 8 St Petersburg photosSent from Samsung Mobile [img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/398586/3_1312181 Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Jul 31, 2011
- It is not the breaths we take...With a good dinner and a good nights’ sleep under our belts we were off for our second day in St. Petersburg. Passport Control was slightly easier this morning but still no smiles from the Russians. Our tour Posted by jonaway in Gems of the Baltic | Jul 31, 2011
- Welcome to Russia - Ja, you will enjoy!Early this morning we neared the port of St. Petersburg to find that the Baltic Sea cruise business is alive and well in this Russian city. Already in post were the Emerald Princess, Regent Seven Seas and a European Posted by jonaway in Gems of the Baltic | Jul 31, 2011
- Day 7 Helsinki to St Petersberg DiaryHey all, Now this ship was amazing. Its huge and gorgeous! We had live entertainment, lots of bars and restaurants, a casino and pool and sauna. Uber cool! Didn't do alot on board besides sleep and eat, but the views of Posted by KateThatcher in Katie & Christine's Travel Blog | Jul 31, 2011
- Moscow Highlights after 2 daysHave fallen in love with Moscow again! It's such a lovely city in the sun! Lots of Soviet history, lots of shiny onion-domed churches and a fair bit of slavic totty too! Have been privileged to see possibly the Posted by crogle in Trans Siberian 2011 | Jul 30, 2011
- Melancholy at leaving our Siberian islandOlkhon Island – Irkutsk, Russia With bags stacked on the roof and a minibus largely consisting of travelers from our guesthouse the 6-hour journey back to what we now termed ‘civilization’ would pass relatively quickly. Yet it was not without Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 7, 2011
- Banya, birching and Lada pirouettes Olkhon Island, Russia Squat toilets and cold showers are considered luxuries on our island. Yet with cold rain still upon us the dawning of this new day resplendent with hangovers, tardiness and an excess of drunken stories from the night before Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 6, 2011
- New friends enjoy desolation and despair in SiberiaTrans-Siberian Railway – Irkutsk – Olkhon Island, Russia With time for breakfast we disembark the travelling hotel room that had served as our base for the last three nights at Irkutsk. Some 3,500 miles east of Moscow, Irkutsk, was once labeled Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 5, 2011
- Picnicking our way to ChinaTrans-Siberian Railway, Russia Awakening to our regular routine we enjoy tea and coffee from the Samovar along with breakfast in our upper bunks. At the end of our bunks a shelf extends into the space above the corridor. This serves as Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 4, 2011
- Babushka’s, Lenin and VodkaTrans-Siberian Railway, Russia After three nights on the train, the change, in our typical day starts to become the norm. Life on the train is very much like camping but without the challenge of rain and wind destroying ones sleeping compartment. Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 3, 2011
- The Romanov execution site and swapping sleeping companionsYekaterinburg, Russia Whilst many travelers, including our friends from the restaurant car last night, travel non-stop to Irkutsk and often beyond, we had chosen to break our journey briefly in Yekaterinburg. We would spend the day here before departi Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 2, 2011
- East to Siberia and beyondTrans-Siberian express, Russia As the schedule promised our Yekaterinburg train arrived some 20 minutes before it’s 00:30 departure time. Innovation on this sector of our journey allowed us to board using an electronic ticket. All we need do was produc Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jul 1, 2011
- Art and ballet. Our last day in MoscowMoscow, Russia With the Kremlin closed on a Thursday (bad planning and a slight disappointment but an excellent cost saving opportunity!) we take a short walk to the Pushkin museum. Crossing a multitude of main roads, these walks take in not Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jun 30, 2011
- Спасибо и до свидания!This is my last hurrah, just a nice little entry to round out my blogging time here in Russia. You can use your imagination to insert all the usual ‘Wow-time-has-flown’, ‘a-month-already-can’t-be-possible’, ‘I-can’t-believe-its-not-butter’, but it really Posted by lucyfbaird in You Can't Have a Favourite Place... | Jul 19, 2011
- Dead bodies and culture. A typical day in MoscowMoscow, Russia With the remaining train tickets collected we start our day at Lenin’s Mausoleum. Open for only 3 hours each day and with strict security, regards not allowing cameras in the area, we join the relatively short queue to view Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jun 29, 2011
- That alcoholic lemonade, it'll get ya.I am sitting here nursing a green tea and an upset stomach, after an afternoon of drunkenly wandering around a Soviet-style theme park. Yes, you read that correctly, Lucy-who-doesn’t-drink has again been bamboozled by this country and its bag of Posted by lucyfbaird in You Can't Have a Favourite Place... | Jul 12, 2011
- Mixing vodka with caffeine, we got strangers stopping byDescribed as having characteristics of “unsmiling gloom and fatalistic melancholy” by Lonely Planet, Russians seem to have a reputation of being surly and unfriendly. Therefore our reservations entering the world’s largest country did not come as a surpri Posted by t3s in A Dose of the World | Jul 11, 2011
- "Garry Potter."Again I sit here with strong coffee to kick start my day, and an hour or so before I need to jump on the bus for the 15-minute ride to university. Bus trips, once so scary, (where am I going, Posted by lucyfbaird in You Can't Have a Favourite Place... | Jul 6, 2011
- Onto Moscow and the massed tourist hordes of Red Square Chişinău, Moldova – Moscow, Russia Taken back to the airport by the Hertz rental car agent the One World airline we were flying, S7, sounded more like a girl band than the operator of an extensive flight network throughout Russia and Posted by jamesh1066 in Overland from Europe to China and beyond | Jun 28, 2011
- And then I got sunburnt going out on a Thursday night.Just as I think I am adjusting to life in this hot, busy city, new surprises jump out of the smog to put me in my place. A simple raid of the freezer section of the supermarket and the delighted Posted by lucyfbaird in You Can't Have a Favourite Place... | Jul 1, 2011
- Day One (and a bit)As I write this I am basking in the early morning sun (7:30am morning sun, thank you jetlag), at a shaky old kitchen table with a bunch of oddly-numbered chrysanthemums (even numbers are for funerals) and a glass of ‘multifruit’ Posted by lucyfbaird in You Can't Have a Favourite Place... | Jun 28, 2011
- 29: By myself again Another leisurely start today, as Kate and my only plan for the day was Posted by weary_feet in Weary_Feet Treks the Globe | Jun 15, 2011
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