Sat aboard the No. 304 train from Moscow to Irkutsk, not quite 24 hours into the 4 day journey – the longest stretch of our Trans-Mongolian route – I figure I have ample time to reflect on my experiences in Russia so far. I say ‘so far’ as while this leg aboard the locomotive will […]
A super-quick update as I should now be packed! We are about to embark upon the longest on-train leg of the Trans-Mongolian journey – we board at 13:35 on Saturday and reach Irkutsk at 9:16 on Wednesday morning. We will surely be insane. There will be many a tale to tell of Russia, but with […]
Some galleries from St.Petersburg & Moscow (late again I know but the tinterweb is scarce) . One day I might even get round to adding captions, until then you’ll just have to guess!
To support the vicious onslaught of entries from my journal on European Russia, here are three galleries covering St Petersburg and Moscow.
Moscow was a very different story to St Pete. We arrived just after 5am, and we were picked up at the station by a driver with a surprisingly new and as-yet-undamaged mini-van. Shamefully I didn’t catch his name, but he was very helpful with the bags and got us to our destination in no time. […]
It wasn’t difficult to find our train, and we were on in no time. This was our first taste of the Trans-Mongolian rail journey – a seven-hour overnight from St Petersburg to Moscow. For each of our journeys we were staying in a 4-berth sleeper, best illustrated: Well, perhaps not quite that small, but pretty […]
Our final day in St Petersburg was to end with a 22:00 train to Moscow meaning a 12:00 checkout. Thankfully we were able to store our luggage though so after breakfast we set out for the Winter Palace and the Hermitage Collection. While the palace was commissioned by Peter the Great, he died before its […]
St Petersburg was a wonderful city. It had the feel of a place that it would be nice to live and work in for a while – to truly immerse yourself in. Might be an idea to broaden your Russian vocab beyond “Spasiba” though. As I mentioned earlier, Geoff the Great – sorry – Peter […]
The latest instalment comes to you from mid-air on board a flight to St. Petersburg via Munich. Put simply, Krakow was wonderful. The digs were much more like I would expect from a hostel – the ones in Berlin paled in comparison. The place was setup very well, with good kitchen and common room facilities […]
Sorry its taken so long (seeing as we left Poland in October!) but finally, here are some pics from our time in Wieliczka, Oswiecim & Krakow.