After a four month hiatus I am back and ready to hit the
road again!! This time my journey is not quite as ambitious or as time consuming
as my last one! You could call it Russia Lite! Last time I started my travels in Shanghai and then flew via
Seoul to Vladivostok where I spent time teaching, sightseeing and meeting with friends eventually boarding the Trans-Siberian railway on a loooong
journey that took me all through Russia! After countless cities and a detour to the lovely college town of Tomsk topped off with many deep fried piroshkies and borsch along the way I made it to Moscow in fine shape.
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| Qolsharif Mosque inside Kazan Kremlin from 2011 |
This trip will take me by train through Western Russia starting in the Finnish capital of Helsinki,
then to the cities of: Moscow, the city of Yoshkar Ola in the republic of Mary-El, Kazan’, Tatarstan
(a city that is known as the Istanbul of Russia due to its mix of Islamic and
Christian traditions), then up to the most populist city north of the Arctic
Circle, Murmansk, which also serves as the home to Russia’s northern fleet.
After all that is said and done I will wind up in one of my favorite cities on
the planet, St. Petersburg. Overall, it should take me about three and a half
weeks to complete the journey.
So…….I look forward to keeping everyone up to date about my
latest travels and impressions throughout Russia! Watch this space!!
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