We are now in Finland, but I haven't had the opportunity to write about Saint Petersburg. People had told us that if we liked Moscow we would love St Petersburg, and we did but for different reasons, but we also liked things about Moscow. Moscow has a population of around 15,000,000 and St Petersburg is only around 5,000,000, big difference. Moscow is over 500 years old, St Petersburg is around 350 years old, so you have to expect differences. Peter the Great had...

MOSCOW! Wow, we made it to Moscow, 12,000 Kilometres from when we started on the second of May back in South Korea, it seems so long ago and so far away. Back to Moscow though, we would have never thought Moscow would be like this, it is amazing, there are so many people and so much happening and the building, history and architecture. We went into a building yesterday, the first English embassy building in Moscow, over five hundred years old, the site of the K...

Our run through the Altai mountains was a bit too fast, but the weather was against us again and it started to rain on our second day in Russia, it was only patchy, but enough for us to put our wet weather gear on. The views as we passed through the mountains were spectacular with rugged snow capped mountains as back drops to deep valleys with rivers flowing fast in them. We didn't think the still camera would capture the views and relied on our helmet camera to...

The run from Hovd to Oligii started out nice, the sun was shining and the road quite fast and smooth, we stopped for morning tea by a river under a tree, it was lovely, only I had spent the night talking to the toilet and was a little under the weather. We continued on passed mountains with snow still on them and over a pass at 2600 metres, the view was spectacular. We continued on to a nice lunch spot by a lake on some grass when four motor bikes from Italy cam...

We are now in Khabarovsk in Russia. It was a long ride from Vladivostok with the road conditions not what you would expect for a major highway. There were long stretches of road where the bitumen was nonexistent and others where you wished there was no bitumen because the potholes had the traffic down to less than 30kph and the stretches where you could get any speed on had the police out in force, I managed to get pulled over once, but when they found out I coul...