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September 30, 2004The Tajik and OlgaThe Tajik and Olga In Irkutsk, when we find our seats on the train to Ulaan Baatar, we find a good-looking 40 year old Muslim man from Tajikistan in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 30, 2004 01:17 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Food, Funniest Experiences, Health, Russian Federation, Trains September 29, 2004Queuing In RussiaBack in Irkutsk we watch women walking swiftly always carrying a plastic shopping sack or two (ovoiska from the Russian 'ovois' meaning 'just in case') of varying brands that...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 29, 2004 03:10 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Russian Federation, Worst Experiences Bob Goes On A HikeBack at Nikita's "resort" I spend half a day taking care of monkey business while Bob goes hiking around the island. It is the end of September but Siberia...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 29, 2004 02:37 AM
TrackBack | Category: Bob's Blogs, Climbs & Walks, Russian Federation September 26, 2004Hanging Out Feels GreatAfter hanging out a couple days...glad to be off the train...Gregory, a former University teacher of German, drove Bob and I, three Germans and a Pole on a half-day...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 26, 2004 02:33 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Culture, Excursions, Minority Groups, Russian Federation September 25, 2004Five Hours to Olkhon IslandThe next morning we are picked up at our homestay in Irkutsk by a sullen driver who drives us five hours over pot-holes, through the taiga and across a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 25, 2004 02:23 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Conversations, Excursions, Hostels & Guesthouses, Russian Federation September 24, 2004Irkutsk..."Paris of the East"Off the train again, we dump our luggage at Nadia's, our homestay and look for a cafe where there just might be an English menu. We find one...not too...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 24, 2004 02:18 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Homestays, Russian Federation, Trains September 22, 2004Goodbye to VladamirVladamir makes crying motions with his fingers running down his cheeks as we prepare to leave him on the train. Astrakhan in 2--5 he writes on a piece of paper...Astrakhan...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 22, 2004 02:14 AM
TrackBack | Category: Russian Federation, Touching Experiences, Trains To Irkutsk With VladamirThe evening we are to leave Yekaterinburg on the train, Bob loses his change purse containing a credit card getting out of a mini-bus. Olga's son drives us in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 22, 2004 02:10 AM
TrackBack | Category: Conversations, Homestays, Politics, Russian Federation September 20, 2004Hot Train CarriagesMost carriages are of East German origin solidly built and warm in winter. Each carriage is staffed by an attendant whose "den" is a compartment at the end of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 20, 2004 01:42 AM
TrackBack | Category: Russian Federation, Trains, Worst Experiences September 19, 2004Europe-Asia Dividing LineYekaterinburg is most famous, however, as the place where Tsar Nicholas II and his wife and five children were murdered by the Bolsheviks in July 1918. Having seen where...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 19, 2004 01:59 AM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, History, Politics, Russian Federation Falling Out of Bed in YekaterinburgThis autumn of 2004, our second time around the world, our train wanders through a rolling fairy-tale landscape in Siberia filled with gentle grassland (steppes) and Birch trees (the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 19, 2004 01:54 AM
TrackBack | Category: History, Homestays, Politics, Russian Federation September 18, 2004To Siberia & Lake BaikalWe boarded our a Moscow train at midnight. We are headed across Russia on the trans-siberian train system. However we will be breaking up the trip by getting off...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 18, 2004 11:30 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, History, Russian Federation, Trains Free-Wheeling Moscow2004-09-2004 Like in the big Central European cities we visited, there are cranes everywhere... old soviet buildings built during the Stalin era are scheduled to be razed and new...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 18, 2004 07:06 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Conversations, Health, Music, Russian Federation, Trains In The Metro Never To ReturnOur homestay in Moscow is in the "burbs." Tanya works for a French men's underwear company and later admits that her son is the wholesaler and she works for...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 18, 2004 07:02 AM
TrackBack | Category: Homestays, Russian Federation, Trains September 17, 2004Red Square MoscowLocal police don't allow anyone in Red Square until 10 in the morning so when Bob got there the Square was jaw-dropping empty...the Kremlin and Lenin's Tomb on one...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 17, 2004 04:58 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Eight Must See, Russian Federation September 10, 2004Forest Mushrooms and VodkaThe night before we leave St. Petersburg, Elena and her childhood friend, Dula, breathlessly excited, bring home bags and boxes of forest mushrooms. Bob and I haven't eaten and...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 10, 2004 06:55 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Food, Russian Federation, Touching Experiences September 08, 2004A Day With SashaI had watched "Russian Ark," a movie about the history of the Hermitage before I left home so I was excited when we found Sasha, a university educated art...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 8, 2004 06:05 AM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, Russian Federation September 07, 2004On The Street In St PetersburgWe hail down a minibus, just like we did in Viet Nam, which takes us across the Neva River to Nevsky pr (like Rodeo Drive in LA which has...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 7, 2004 05:25 AM
TrackBack | Category: Buses, Restaurants, Russian Federation September 06, 2004Beslan...Russia's 9/11St. Petersburg, Russia September 6, 2004: We had been monitoring the hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia, all through Europe...but was one day late to witness a demonstration in...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 6, 2004 06:19 AM
TrackBack | Category: Politics, Russian Federation St. Petersburg HomestayA Homestay has been arranged for us by our tour company, White Knights, with Elena who lives in (and owns) a 3 room very cluttered flat four flights up...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 6, 2004 01:43 AM
TrackBack | Category: Food, Homestays, Russian Federation September 05, 2004Traki, Karaites & Kibini PastryTrakai, on the outskirts of Vilnius, Lithuania, is a small settlement placed in the middle of five large lakes that is home to about 350 members of the Keraites, a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 5, 2004 05:10 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Excursions, Food, Lithuania, Minority Groups Life Becomes More of AdventureOld Town Vilnius is now on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sights. Some graffiti seems significant in this country where a staggering 91% of the 64% of the population...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 5, 2004 05:02 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Lithuania, UNESCO World Heritage Sites Exact Center of EuropeOn the outskirts of Vilnius is European Park where The French National Geographic Institute places the center of Europe at 54 degrees North Latitude, 25 degrees 19' East Longitude. Recently...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 5, 2004 03:59 AM
TrackBack | Category: European Union, Lithuania September 04, 2004Interesting LithuaniaThe Baltics...Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Are these in Central Europe or do we call this Eastern Europe...where is the line? We stop a few days in Vilnius Lithuania on the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 4, 2004 03:56 AM
TrackBack | Category: European Union, Lithuania, Politics September 01, 2004Bob & The EuropeansThere is something in the European demeaner/attitude that brings out my anti-establishment posturing. On the flight from the U.S. to Frankfurt (Lufthansa Air) my seat was broken. "No problem," said...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on September 1, 2004 07:40 AM
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