Yekaterinburg
Saturday 29/07 – Yekaterinburg We started, with our guide Yulia, by the visit of the Church on the blood, built between 2000 and 2003 on... Read more
Month: July 2017
En route to Maly Turysh + stay in Maly Turysh
Thursday 27 Hearty breakfast at the hotel (eggs and pancakes). Today our driver is Dimitri, an engineer who has one of the biggest dealers of... Read more
Perm
Tuesday 25/07 The 17 hours in the train passed so quickly! We had a relatively good 10-hour night’s sleep, we read a bit, we ate... Read more
Departure from Moscow – First stop of Trans-Mongolian journey: Suzdal
Sunday 23/07 – Departure from Moscow / Vladimir / Suzdal We woke up at 5am for our great departure eastwards. So far we’ve “just” had... Read more
Moscow – Summary
We had a very nice 6-day stay. We were lucky to have a very nice Airbnb. It was our first Airbnb experience and it was... Read more
Trans-Mongolian trip – Organization & Programme
We could do the Moscow-Beijing train journey with the Trans-Mongolian in 5½ days but we decided to take 6 weeks. We wanted to stay 30... Read more
Moscow (3)
Friday 21/07 – Kremlin We started with the Kremlin. We arrived early to avoid the long queues we saw a few days ago. Within 30′... Read more
Moscow (2)
Wednesday 19/07: Visit to Kitai-Gorod district. In the morning: the Church of the Trinity in Nikitniki and then Varvarka, Llinka and Nikolskaya streets. In the afternoon,... Read more
Moscow (1)
First days in Moscow. The very first day, after settling in in our Airbnb, we couldn’t wait to go and see the famous Saint Basil’s Cathedral... Read more
Arrival in Moscow + installation
Moscow, here we come. Smooth (Uber) transfer from the airport to our Airbnb, although I still don’t know how we fitted the 5 of us and... Read more