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Borodino, Russia Kazan’, capital of the Republic of Tartarstan. Here’s a bit of geography for you – Russia is made up of 83 ‘subjects’ – republics, oblasts, krais, and autonomous regions (1). Tartarstan, like Buryatia, is a republic with their own parliament and they also have representatives in the Federal Parliament. Some republics are a…
Kazan, Russia Ever since 1970 when I first read the book “Nicholas & Alexandra”, which told the story of the last Russian Tsar and his family, I have always wanted to see Ekaterinburg. But likewise, for many years, I never believed that would be an option until the break-up of the USSR and the subsequent…
Yekaterinburg, Russia So we are now back in Russia and we had our first night of camping in Russia – the weather wasn’t as cooperative as we would have wished – as previously stated, I woke up in the wee hours of the morning with frozen feet, legs, back, etc. In the morning, when we…
Biysk, Russia With a heavy heart, we waved good-bye to Sibylle, Rene and the Oasis Guesthouse in UB and hit the road again. Today we were heading to Tsetserleg and we were planning on staying at a Guesthouse that we had been referred to, “Fairfield”. By taking a back road, we managed to get through…
Ulan Baatar, Mongolia Leave Russia – TICK Arrive in Mongolia – TICK Yes, our 4th country in just over one month. But I’m getting ahead of myself. One of the things that we purchased before we left Australia, was Russian road maps for our GPS, through Naviextras – we have a HEMA Hn6. We bought…
Ulan Ude, Russia Two nights in the one spot – sheer bloody luxury! But sadly without internet access… Anyway, we were back on the road on Friday, continuing westward. We picked a pinpoint on the map and decided to stay there on Friday night. It was a little Russian village called Chernishevsk. Once again, we…
Б.Невер, Russia When looking for accommodation in countries where you don’t read/speak the language, always investigate recommendations. In Khabarovsk, the Hotel Amur was strongly recommended with the staff speaking English and there being an ATM in the lobby. We looked at it on Booking.com and decided that at 4000 Roubles per night, it was a…
Khabarovsk, Russia On Thursday, we FINALLY got the car. Yuri rang us in the morning and said that he would pick us up at the hotel and take us to get the car soon, and that he would ring us to tell us to come downstairs. And so, we waited… and when he rang around…
Vladivostok, Russia When we were doing our research for this trip, we heard multiple good comments re Bill Nicoll and Silver Wind in Melbourne. And a major advantage was that the parent company was based in Vladivostok. In our conversations with him, he advised us to get a Customs Agent in Brisbane, which we did…
Vladivostok, Russia So today is Day 4 here in Vladivostok and we don’t have much to report yet. We’ve established contact with the Shipping Company and we have a Customs Agent. The boat still hasn’t arrived (we think) – we’ve been told various dates but the latest seems to be 30th March. So far, we’ve…
Nick & MJ On The Road 