My exactness with the maps isn't great but St. Peterburg is in that general area. We made it to St. Petersburg and we were picked up from the train station and brought to our hotel which was a good thing because it would have taken us a long time to find it otherwise. We went for a walk along Nevsky Prospect, which is the main street in St.Petersburg and we were amazed at how beautiful the city is. The are elegant buildings everywhere and the architecture is so ...

Although the photo relates to Moscow we had left Moscow and travelled via Vladimir to Sudzal. Upon leaving Moscow we left Sean and also the huge buffet breakfasts which we received in the hotel. The train to Vladimir took a mere 2 hours from Moscow and then we were transfered to Sudzal. Vladimir and Sudzal are part of an old region of Russia known as the Golden Triangle. This used to be the old capital of Russia where all religious power was held. The region is ...

We boarded the train from Yekateringburg at 9am and a Russian lady was sharing our cabin. We chatted for a while and then she shared her lunch with me (Trish) as the boys where sleeping. Although only 25 hours that seemed to be the longest journey so we slept and read until we arrived in Moscow the following morning. We were picked up and brought to our hotel which was really nice and then we took the metro into the city centre. We went to the Red Square, which ...

With a 51 hour train journey ahead of us we tried our best to get comfortable. It turned out the both Trish and I and Sean and Mel had a cabin to ourselves which was brilliant. The first night on the train, myself and Sean met a Russian couple (who turned out to be rather strange) in the dining carriage who asked us to join them for a bit of vodka. Feeling that it would be rude to refuse we happily joined them and after many shots the conversation was flowing ...

We arrived into bitterly cold Irkutsk around 7am. It was cold, -6 degrees, and dark. We met our driver and 3 Aussies who we would be spending the next 3 days with. With all of us packed into the van off we set for a small village on the shores of Lake Baikal (the worlds biggest fresh water lake and containing roughly 20% of the worlds fresh water supplies), 2 hours away. The scenery on route was brilliant, snow covered forests, and i'd like to say we looked out a...