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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Jump to the full entry & travel map Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation Hello everybody WE MADE IT TO RUSSIA!!! We successfully arrived in St Petersburg this morning and after a bit of stumbling around, found are youth hostel, which is very nice. We have met several nice people in the hostel, alot of them from England who are also doing the same trip we are (but for a shorter time and all their...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Yekaterinburg, Urals, Russian Federation Now in Asia after a very nice and comfortable journey on the "Ural", "the best organised train in Russia" according to one of the Russians travelling in our carriage and there is little to doubt about that, quite sumptuous quarters. Our guide in Ekateringburg told us that there were two reasons that the city was in...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map St. Petersburg, Russian Federation St. Petersburg DAY 2 A big day ahead of us, and I mean BIG! We have booked our most expensive tour of the trip for today. An eight hour excursion to see Catherine's Palace and The Hermitage, with lunch included. After a quick breakfast, we met and were ushered off and onto busses once again. The drive...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation Oh well, so much to say, so little time. I arrived to Yekaterinburg and as I managed to elave the directions to my hostel in Moscow I decided to take a cab. It was a 15 minute scary journey, trying to convince myself that this is not the city I am going to die at a back of a taxi! The hostel was located at a fairly dodgy block...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Yekaterinburg, Urals, Russian Federation So, after being guided through Kazan and spending a lovely day smelling all over the city (no showers on the train - remember?), I got on the train heading to Yekaterinburg across the Ural mountains, slowly making my way to deep Russia. The train I was taking was a very basic train with a very high number (the lower...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map St. Petersburg, North-West Russia, Russian Federation DAY ONE of TWO in St. Petersburg! My first impression when I looked out to the dock area was that the Soviets were still in power! I am sure HAL saves money y docking so far out, or it could also be that the ship is too big to get any closer into the city, but we were in the middle of an industrial...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Kazan, Privolzhsky, Russian Federation I am leaving this evening. I tell you more when I get to the internet after having visited Kazan. So, it worked and I managed to get to Kazan. I met some lovely Tatar people on the train who could speak English. They were very firendly and the husband offered to organise a guide for me in Kazan (since I was only staying...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Moscow, Russian Federation A new week, a new place. This time I am extremely excited about where I am (not that all travel doesn't excite just some destinations are highpoints). The reason for my excitement is the fact that I am in Russia. Have wanted to visit Russia for ages and I am finally here. Arrived in Moscow on July 14 after taking the night train...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Irkutsk, Siberia, Russian Federation Taking a break for two days in the center (well, sort of...) of Russia, meeting the Brits, getting a better train to Moscow.....
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Podol'sk, Russian Federation couchsurfing experience #2 in Russia...meet Kenny, my host in Podol'sk and triathlete extraordinaire, and my re-introduction to western civilization in the form of a McDonald's and a combo pizza/sushi restaurant. This is my two day experience of Podol'sk, one of the many small towns Lenin considered obscure enough to hide out in....
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Tula, Russian Federation Staying outside of Tula, Russia's weapons manufacturing powerhouse, and just down the street from Tolstoy's farm (if by 'down the street' you mean 'roughly an hour and a half') almost not making it back to the farm, and meeting the eco-patrol in the form of 30 preteen campers, this is my adventure on the Russian farm.
