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This blog has been a bit stagnant lately, as the travails of travel have prevented me from updating it. As you can imagine, charging a phone can be difficult in a nomadic ger (large circular tent) nested in the vast Mongolian expanses. Now, on a train from Ulanbataar to the Chinese city of Jinan I [...]
Although Yekaterinburg does not have many tourist attractions, they do have a war museum. That sounded really interesting to me, but not so much to the girls so we parted our ways. I went to play with guns and they with Barbies so to speak. :) The war museum primarily deals with the second world [...]
22. July, Yekaterinburg – Some of you may have heard of Yekaterinburg under it’s previous name, Svedrlovsk. Svderlovsk was a renowned Bolshevik and after the October revolution the city got to bear his name. After the 1991 transition, it was again swiftly changed back in honor of Catherine the Great. Pick your preferences yourself. The [...]
20., 21. July – Moscow was fun, but it was time to move on, go east. We took the metro to the Jaroslawski train station, had our breakfast at a local buffet and purchased some food for the long ride ahead. One of the benefits of Russia is cheap caviar, so I stocked up with [...]
Moscow, 19. July – Got up, got the train tickets to Yekaterinburg, got food at Subway (plenty of those in Russia). Checked out an interestingly and uniquely Soviet styled skyscraper, housing a Hilton hotel these days, decided what we already knew, too expensive. Basic errands thus accomplished we followed the Moskvaaa, doooown to Gorky paaaark, [...]
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