Daily distance: 151 km Distance from home: 3322 km We rushed through the taiga. A forest appeared to our eyes. Forest of chimneys. And then we saw the inscription of greeting visitors in the city of metallurgists. We found a nice resort on the island, our room was only 80m2 and about 4 meters high. …
Daily distance: 624 km Distance from home: 3171 km In the second half of the day our goal was to consciously cross the Arctic Circle. We were armed with a photo from Google Maps, gps coordinates, signpost by the road pointing to the village of Polarny Krug, the off-road car and memories from Rovaniemi (Santa …
Daily distance: 548 km Distance from home: 2547 km We spent the night in a cosy wooden house, without a kitchen, but there was a real Russian banya (sauna). We could warm ourselves up in the right way for the local people. Our hostess was a very nice, talkative history teacher, who wasn’t bothered by …
Daily distance: 428 kmDistance from Home: 1998 km Petrozavodsk is a backwater in which there is nothing interesting. You can spend half a day here. And go on. We stayed here for the night, only because of cheap accommodation.But once we arrived here, we wanted to see Lake Onega from close by. In the port …
Tickets to the Hermitage It is worth buying Hermitage tickets online. Yes, it will be more expensive than at the ticket office, but it will miss you in the queue to the ticket office. In addition, there is a separate entrance for those on the Internet. Metro Metro. Disposable “tickets” take the form of a …
Daily distance: 0 km Distance from home: 1570 km Why should we love and hate Tsar Peter I? St. Petersburg impressed us with its beauty and elegance. We wanted to saturate ourselves with it as much as possible, and in total we had a full day and a little bit at our disposal. The plan was …
Daily distance: 211 kmDistance from home: 1570 km You may have noticed that some of our journeys are related to the cities of the Hanseatic League. We were in Lübeck and Visby on Gotland, as well as in Riga, Tallinn and Stockholm. In Polish Gdańsk (where Hanza had its cantor) we were also 😉 Therefore, …
Daily distance: 363 km Distance from home: 1359 km We are visiting Pskov today. You may know this city from the history of Poland, in 1581 the Polish army arrived here under the command of King Stefan Batory. And when they arrived, they did not want to leave so quickly. We saw the oldest part …
Daily distance: 298 km Distance from home: 995 km First, we visited Daugavpils – a city with an interesting Russian fortress. The most important event of the day was crossing the Russian border. The information we have collected about this exciting moment can be read here. In fact, it turned out that …. On the …
The most disturbing part of our trip is crossing the Russian border. We have got used that within the European Union, that everything is nice, easy and pleasant. The more the border with Russia seems to be something very mysterious. So far we know (theoretically, from the Internet): How to fill in customs documents How …