title>East Until My Feet Get Wet: July 2004 Archives - BootsnAll Travelogues
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* Travel mates for Mongolia wanted!
* A weekend well spent * Akademgorodok * Worlds apart * Moscow pros and cons * Failure to communicate * Helsinki
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July 31, 2004Travel mates for Mongolia wanted!I`m looking for travel companions for a trip around the Mongolian countryside to share the costs of jeepn rental etc. in late august/early september, for a duration of one to two weeks. Most of all I want to visit Kharkhorin...Read this update July 26, 2004A weekend well spentWhen I told people at home I was going to spend the summer in Siberia, they looked at me as if I`d finally completely lost my mind, and pressed me to bring warm clothes and a winter coat. I tought...Read this update July 15, 2004AkademgorodokI am currently taking a 4-week Russian course in Akademgorodok, a small academic settlement about a 40 minute drive from the centre of Novosibirsk. It was built in the late fifties, in the middle of the forest, near the Ob...Read this update Worlds apartMoscow and Novosibirsk are 2 days apart by train, but to me it almost seems like they are on different planets. The inhabitants of Moscow seem mostly cold, intolerant and selfabsorbed, most Siberians I`ve met are warm, open, friendly, and...Read this update July 13, 2004Moscow pros and consFirst, the bad news: 1. Ho(s)tel prices 2. Unfriendly, unhelpful, monolingual people (there are of course exceptions) 3. Traffic, and the lack of pedestrian crossings 4. Bus stops without a schedule 5. People cutting in line, or trying to get...Read this update Failure to communicateThis globalfreeloaders thing really does not work. The girl with whom I was supposed to stay in Moscow stopped replying to my e-mails a few days before I went there. The first thing I did when I arrived, after having...Read this update HelsinkiIf i substract the time it took me to get from the airport to the train station and buy a ticket for the overnight train to Moscow, I had less than three hours in Helsinki. I had never planned to...Read this update |
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