Daily distance: 395 km (driving in the area)Distance from home: 3322 km We would not be ourselves if we were able to sit still. Knowing that there are many interesting places to visit in the area, we planned: The Port of Murmansk, with the nuclear icebreaker Lenin further exploration of the Kolski Peninsula, this time …
This is a short story about our long distance lamp for our last trip. It’s evident that we have to see in darkness. Above Polar Circle where we made our tests during SaabVoyage Murmansk Winter Expedition and the sun doesn’t rise in winter the lamps in your car is one of the most important things. …
Daily distance: 200 km (driving in the area)Distance from home: 3322 km End of tenth day Today we had our first serious clash with cultural differences. It turned out that we were not wearing enough fur and not enough gold to eat in the best restaurant in Murmansk. The decision about our table was made …
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, …