This morning (yesterday evening, your time!) I was chatting on IM with my friend Henry. The gist of the conversation was, “Where are you? What have you been doing? When the hell are you going to post again, you no-account layabout?”
The short answer is: I’m still in Vladivostok, waiting for my Chinese visa, which should [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trains’
For Henry
Posted in Russia, tagged architecture, China, Harbin, Russia, trains, Vladivostok on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love Vladivostok
Posted in Russia, tagged Russia, trains, Vladivostok on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve hardly seen it, but…it feels right. It’s much more beautiful than I thought – I expected lots and lots and lots of Khrushchev Specials, but instead I find slightly crumbling 19th- and early-20th-century structures on rolling tree-green hills. All surrounded by the Pacific.
Of course, this is an initial, sleep-deprived impression. We shall see [...]
Nothing to see
Posted in Russia, tagged Olkhon Island, Russia, Siberia, trains on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[I wrote most of this post two Fridays ago from Olkhon Island, before my hike. Forgot to post it.]
After a Thursday of 34-degree Centigrade weather (that’s 93 F) in the fine Siberian city of Irkutsk, Friday morning dawned drizzly and cold. Nikkie (he spells his name with an “e”, so that’s how I’ll differentiate between [...]
Mojo: from bad to good
Posted in Russia, tagged Ergaki, Krasnoyarsk, Kyzyl, Russia, trains, Tuva on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Greetings from the local radio station in Tuva.
Krasnoyarsk, my first stop in eastern Siberia, killed any mojo I had built up in Tomsk. After arriving on the train on Sunday at 11 am I spent the entire day looking for a room – all the inexpensive places were full. I even took a bus ride [...]
