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Tales from the (rail)road
Guess what: Across Siberia by train is a long journey. Our plan was to cover the 4265 km to the shores of Lake Baikal in 4 days and 5 nights, passing through Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains after 994 km, getting of the train for a day in Omsk (902 km further) and again in … Weiterlesen
Stations #9
Novosibirsk, Siberia
Stations #8
Omsk, Siberia
Capital of the Republic of Tatarstan
After 21 hours on the river, we saw four minarets on the horizon. While our boat cruised further down the Volga, the picture became more complete: impressive white Kremlin walls surrounding presidential palaces, an orthodox cathedral as well as a huge modern mosque. Kazan feels a bit like Istanbul, a bit like Moscow – with … Weiterlesen
Stations #7
Kazan, ‚river station‘ (рецной вокзал)
Moscow
We booked 3rd class for our first railway journey in Russia (though not part of the actual TransSib) to see if the so called ‚platzkartny‘ are bearable. They were pretty nice indeed and Julia only woke up in the suburbs of Moscow. Standing outside Leningradsky station you cannot miss one of the seven sisters, the … Weiterlesen
Stations #5
Moskovskaya Vokzal in St. Petersburg
Reaching Russia
The lights in the bus were switched on at about 2 am and the stewardess Tatjana made an announcement in Russian and Latvian. The only thing we did understand (with the help of a sign out the window) was that we had reached the Latvian-Russian border. We had an interesting break of about 70 minutes … Weiterlesen
Happy Birthday Dad!
Heute hat der andere Hans Geburtstag: Alles Liebe zum Geburtstag aus Riga wünschen Dir Mario und Julia. Und als kleinen Gruß gibts nen ganzen Strauß Maiglöckchen (schwabenmäßig vom Straßenverkäufer geliehen).
Warszawa
After the days in scenic Prague we had a nice and calm train ride into Poland, country #3. We found ourselves a hostel in a central location, dropped our stuff and went for dinner with Anna and Konrad, two friends of mine from Delhi days. We ended up in a beergarden type place, where we … Weiterlesen
Das Gartenhaus an der Prager Burg
Die große Silvesterparty hier hab ich verpasst, umso größer die Ehre nun bei den Hanzliks im Gartenhaus unterkommen zu können. Man stelle sich vor, den Weg hoch nach Hradcany auf der großen Schlosstreppe, das letzte Haus vor der Burgmauer, eine kleine Holztür, alte und enge Treppen führen steil nach oben in eine charmante, alte Wohnung. … Weiterlesen
Das letzte Hemd
Some of our friends gave ‚their last shirt‘ for our wedding. Its essence are the ‚magical attributes‘ of shirt and the matching green tie, which both seem to have some bills sewn into them. Both are extremely beautiful pieces of fashion design and supposed to appear on one photo from every country on the trip. … Weiterlesen
Stations #1
This will just be brief shots from stations we dropped by. We ll begin this with the small German one we left of a few days ago, continue with Prague, where we left this morning and we ll probably gonna post similar ones soon.
Packed up
The backpacks are closed, but I thought you might be more interested what’s inside ;-) Here you go: We loved the list at weltreise-info.de. Although ours is quite a bit different as you can see. So far we have written more about those pieces of our equipment in more detail: – Steiner binoculars – The … Weiterlesen
Morgen gehts los
Halb 2 in der letzten Nacht im eigenen Bett. Morgen solls losgehen. Über München, Prag, Warschau, Riga und St. Petersburg nach Moskau, dem Startpunkt der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn. Die meisten Sachen sind organisiert, insbesondere der Visa für Russland, China und Mongolei. Der Rucksack ist noch nicht ganz zu, aber all die Vorfreude passt sowieso nich mehr … Weiterlesen
