Berlin – Mr. Gorbachev, I hardly recognize the place since the wall was torn down.
A guest blog by Holly Melton. The train trip from Prague to Berlin is beautiful. For the first 2 1/2 hours of the trip, the train tracks follow along a […]
St. Petersburg – Peter the Great’s European City in Russia
A guest blog by Holly Melton: Our sweet ride from Moscow to St. Petersburg (and back): Mark and I are becoming experienced train riders on this trip. On this trip […]
Moscow – Center of the Russian Universe – Part 1
This was my first visit to Moscow, I was a blank slate. Holly on the other hand had visited Moscow during the depths of the cold-war with the Soviet Union […]
Moscow – Center of the Russian Universe – Part 2
If Moscow is the center of the Russian universe, the Kremlin is the holy of holies, the seat of the Russian government and at one time the center of the […]
The Trans-Siberian Railroad – Chasing Romanov Ghosts in Yekaterinburg
The Trans-Siberian Railroad: We traveled to Irkutsk, Russia from Beijing via the Trans-Mongolian railroad – the blue-line on map below, with a three-day stop in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. […]
Irkutsk me, have we been exiled to Siberia?
A guest blog by Holly Melton (with heavy contributions from Mark) Mark has been quite happy – he has been able to download the Wall Street Journal quite easily on […]
Vladivostok – Mother Russia’s San Francisco on the Pacific
Vladivostok is the Pacific terminus of the 5,778 mile long Trans-Siberian Railway. Running from Moscow in the West to Vladivostok in the East, the Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest continuous […]
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