Novgorod Travel Blogs

So earlier in the week, Valentina, one of our professors, told us about this "folk festival" that was taking place nearby.  We assumed it meant some folk dances that we would sit and watch, say, at the Kremlin.  Wrong were we.We were bussed 45 minutes outside of town, dropped off in a fie…

Novgorod was Russian capital in the old times and its historical city center is quite nice although should I be honest I wouldn't recommend anyone to stay there overnight because there's not much to do.....Couple of hours, max one day is enough. The most impressive thing there was the Monument to t…

Today is another day. However its not going to be all that good. I wake up this morning and barely can get up. My mouth is like cardboard, my guts are all shot, I feel like getting sick, my skin is all balmy and pale. Its like a train has hit me and is still tracking me down the road. I am abit hu…

The ultimate study abroad experience-- twenty eight students, three professors, forty cities, fourteen countries, four months.

Setting off from Hong Kong in Aug 1992, 2 days after turning 22, I traveled China, Mongolia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, returning to Hong Kong in July 1993. Apart from Athens/Cairo, I never set foot on an airplane during this year-long walkabout. Before the days of digital cameras, internet, and mobile phones, this solo adventure was as much a discovery of myself as it was about these 31 countries. Many of them, like me, have long since changed.

In the early morning (7.00 am) we arrived at a modern railwaystation in St. Petersburg. We had breakfast in Hotel Moscow and left St. Petersburg for a 3 hours trip to Novgorod. Novgorod, city of many churches and a museum with breathtaking icons.

Breakfast at 7:30 AM. Departed for Novgorod, Russia at 8:00 AM. Our first stop was at the site of Tchaikovsky's hpuse. When we finally arrived in Novgorod, we met our local guide and took a tour of the oldest Kremlin in all of Russia. After the Kremlin we headed back to the hotel for dinner and dri…