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This is Europe!!!

What a beautiful place, massive European buildings lining wide roads huge palatial halls and immense churches and cathedrals. Yeah I like Saint P. After arriving very early and still worse for ware I located my hostel and went to bed. Woke up at 3pm, sun went down around 4:30. I went to the...

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Dan on November 13, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia

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The great train journey continues!

and ends I suppose though there are more trains to come I completed the trains Siberian in one fell swoop. 6oookms and 3 nights on my own in a couchette I actually went a bit stir crazy as literally nothing happened. Until day 2 that is when in my bordem I decided to have a shave and during a...

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Dan on November 10, 2008 from Moscow, Russia

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If you go nowhere else...

I had been told about this place by everyone I'd met coming the other way from Russia. It was more than worth the hype too. I only wish I had a week to spare not 3 days Olkhon Island is a fairly large place on the western edge of Baikal (the worlds biggest and deepest fresh water lake...

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Dan on November 5, 2008 from Khuzhir, Russia

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Hyello Russia!

After a slow train North, mainly because of the incredibly long winded border crossing/shunting operation that took approximately 8 hours, I have arrived in Russia. Another comfortable train and fairly uneventful trip all the best sights where sadly missed as we passed lake Baikal in the night....

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Dan on November 3, 2008 from Irkutsk, Russia

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Saturday April 19th 1986

Saturday April 19th 1986 1st day Leningrad (NOW ST PETERSBURG) 2 Hours in customs. Got to Hotel (Leningrad)- Great Hotel, Meal of veal stew, red cabbage, cucumber, and saute potatoes. Starters sardine & cucumber and pumpernickle bread. Lovely view from Hotel Leningrad of river Neva. It...

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eugenecheese on September 11, 2008 from Saint Petersburg, Russia