Russia Travel Blogs

Today we were completely 'guideless'. We took the subway to the Red Square to visit the mausoleum of Lenin. We were lucky; today was a very quiet day and no queues, so it was literally in and out in five minutes. The sight of the world's (second?)most famous mummy is surreal. Because the mummificat…

On Sunday, May 10th Russia beat Canada in the World Hockey Championships and Moscow went a bit crazy.  I watched the game with friends at the TGI Friday’s on Tverskaya Street.  After the buzzer sounded we joined the multitudes of celebrating Russians along Tverskaya between Pus…

I start the day with the sort walk down to the Winter Palace to for a visit to the museum. The place is so famous for all the art they have on display so I figure it is time to be really civilized and cultural. I get to the counter and pay - unfortunately my Russian is pretty bad ok non-exist…

24 - Zenit Reserves25 - 0-0 first team26 - Smolny27 - Mama Tanias birthday - breasts like a cocker spaniels ears

February 23 is a national holiday, The Day of Defenders of the Motherland, celebrated as Men’s Day here, and ��" what it more important for a lazy girl like me ��" a day off J   This year it falls on the first day of Maslenitsa, Russian Carnival, the last week before the Great Len…

March 8 is a national holiday in Russia, Women’s Day and a day off. I didn’t know about my plans until late, travelling to see a friend was an option but since he was very busy again L I was open to suggestions.   A couple of times per year I join my mom for a ‘vegetable’ weekend so…

On my last day in the capital of Tatarstan I planned to visit a holy place • Raifa Virgin’s Monastery. Situated 35 km from Kazan, in the center of the part of the Volga-Kama state nature preserve, the monastery is one of the XVII century architectural pearls.   There is a bus number 404…

I arrived in St Petersburg on a Saturday afternoon, extremely excited and was soon whisked away in a taxi who made a formula one driver seem slow. It was exhilarating and I was immediately hit with the realisation that the city was not the dull drab grey concrete sprawl I had expected from this nat…

In the morning we made our way to meet Anastacia to head towards the State Museum, minus the 2 girls. As they had not risen by the time we meant to have left and wanted to sleep in when asked. Me and Natascha headed out to meet Anastacia at the designated meeting place. With Anastacia with us, we d…

it was cold and beautiful. everyone should visit russia in winter to get to feel a real cold. its so refreshing -20 C. :):):)

Part II: Touring Moscow on Foot, Underground and with my rather disagreeable colleague Peter (the Brit) This is the second part of my visit to Moscow: the first was the business nature of it. It was now late November and the flowered trees that I had seen in September were gone…

The 19 year old German pilot landed his Cessna on the bridge right in front of our hotel window back in 1987. He then taxied to Red Square. He so embarrassed the Russian military that more than 2000 officers lost their jobs, including the defense and air defense ministers, who were opposed to Gorba…

Some of us woke up early to go the Red Square for taking pictures without the square being filled with people. So at 7am, we were in a nice sunny morning, taking pictures of the various buildings surrounding the square. Then we headed back to our hotel for breakfast and a tour around Moscow City ce…

The second day began with rain but soon it started to snow. The streets were filled with layers of snow. So we went out to walk to the city. Already at the first few steps I felt my toes began wet. I left my snowboots at home because my suitcase no longer wanted to close. So it was only m…

We left Yaroslavl in the early morning. Travelling back to Moscow. On our way we did visit the famous monastery Holy-Trinity St. Sergius Lavra. In Moscow we had a couple of hours to spend before going on the nighttrain to Petrozavodsk (Karelia). Finally got to the Red Square!!