“When winter is cold, it must be cold. This is the eternal law of nature.” Start We were looking for an interesting way to spend family Christmas. After several years of experimentation we found a very pleasant hut in Masuria (fully equipped kitchen, no GSM coverage, fireplace and a brazen lynx that bit a hole …
Background A few years ago we came up with the idea of going for Christmas to a less obvious place in Europe than usual. And so in the winter of 2017 we drove the whole family to NordKapp in Norway. And a year later we went to the Russian Murmansk. In 2019, we set the …
An important part of our trips is local food. Not only is it available in restaurants and bars, but also goodies that are simply available in shops. Below is a gallery of our tastes. The hit of the trip: cheese bars. Vanilla, coconut, with different fillings and toppings. Gift for cats: dried fish and seafood …
It was our last day in Russia. What we have left is to refill our stock of delicacies. And then we drove towards the border crossing with Latvia. Here are some photos of the most important points of the return journey. Already in Lithuania, what we love the most – food! It’s getting closer and …
We expected that the return crossing of the Russian-Latvian border would be unproblematic. At the beginning we mistook the queues – somehow we didn’t think that since entering Russia by car meant importing the vehicle, the same trip will be an export, and we happily set ourselves at the gate “nothing to customs”. So remember: …
The 16th day of the journey was promising calmly. A 4.5 hour drive, it means 305 km to travel, maybe some lunch on the way, then we had to make it to the village of Pushkin to visit Tsarskoye Selo. We hoped that maybe we would even drive to St. Petersburg for a moment. The …
How did the Tsars live? 25 km south of St. Petersburg, in the village of Pushkin, there is a summer residence of the Tsars – the Tsar’s Selo. Tickets can be purchased online and at the ticket office. More information (tour times, permanent and temporary exhibitions, etc.) can be found here. The Tsar’s Selo was …
The plan was simple: go south, find the Arctic Circle, go to sleep. As usual, plans are plans, and reality is much more interesting. We realized that by overlapping very little road, we can get to the recommended viewpoint, with a view of the White Sea. Then we returned to the originally planned route and …
Our plan was very simple: check out of the apartment, leave Murmansk and finally see the Barents Sea close up. At the beginning, we discovered that packing the car, after almost complete unpacking, does not take 10 minutes. So the plan of the day went away from the very beginning. As we checked earlier, getting …
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 …