Being a tourist

The plan: walking on the river to the Red Square, a short stop at the Ritz (memory lane), up Tverskaya, to Bolshoy Theater (no tickets online, maybe I get lucky) up the Kamergersky to Ul. Boldshaya Dmitrovka ending at Hermitage Garden. Did I ever say that I love being a tourist?   

Moscow

I made it. The first 24 hours soft-train-journey-launch successfully done. Slept well. Sergey and his girlfriend picked me up and dropped me at the hotel. The weather is really nice!     

Valentina

She is 49 and wanted to sell me more food. I could possibly buy any more as I already gave some away. We are standing still and some train works are going on. Not sure what they are doing but it looks like they are servicing the train ?? I learned that the ladies get…

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Border Belarus 

So far so good. Changed train in Warsaw. I booked a sleeper bed in a female compartment which does not exist in the future trains I will take. The lady who is staying with me is from Belarus and will leave me soon. I don’t speak Russian and she doesn’t speak English but somehow she…

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Berlin/Warsaw/Moscow

Started my journey today with a taxi driver from Sibiria 🙂 and a successful yet slightly stressful passport handover infront of a backery near the trainstation.  Happy owner of  3 new visas.         

Getting ready …..

Last weeks checklist for planning my trip… I can’t even remember when I last travelled with a bag pack. Thanks to a visa service I managed to get the visas done in time. Well they arrived on Friday, got the passport today at the train station. Hardly any pages left so my ability to travel…

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