Author Archives: Vera

Transsiberian Railroad Tales

Moscow to Yekaterinburg on the Transsiberian Railroad, a good time among Russian people

Visiting Moscow

Moscow Red Square & Kremlin, and discovering some funny moscovite/russian manners ;-)

St.Petersburg

We are sitting in a 4th class carriage with only Russians around us, en route from St.Petersburg to Moscow. We left St.Petersburg this afternoon after a few great days spent there. With its great musea, public gardens and open spaces it definitely is a great destination. As we were there for 5 days we had […]

A typical day visiting St. Petersburg

06.08.2007: Today is our last day in St.Petersburg and although we had quite a few days here, there were still a few things that we did not visit yet. We started of this morning with a visit of the Nicholas Church actually quite close to our hostel. The church is very nice from the outside […]

Our bags arrived!

Our bags arrived! Our bags arrived! Our bags arrived!  

Our Departure

First adventure: British timeliness and bags don’t have legs!

Finally our new website is working!

And what better to celebrate this with (finally) the map of our planned itinerary? Vera & Jean-Christophe PS: Yeah I know, my geographical knowledge is not completely correct, but hey did you ever see a turtle-like map of the world? Vera

Packing our bags…

Today we started packing our bags. Now as you could have been reading in earlier articles, people started asking us WHAT we were going to take and especially HOW. As we did not really know the answer to those questions neither (except for some general ideas like “not too heavy” and “not too big”) we […]