In 2019 I went off on my Russian Odyssey, three weeks travelling between Moscow, St Petersburg, Murmansk, Ekaterinburg and Perm, seeing the sights, seeing the Arctic, sampling the delights of the Imperial era and the more dubious delights of the Soviet era, getting my first ever ride on the Trans Siberian Railway, visiting lots of churches and then writing lots of blog posts on the subject!
Do you want to know about visiting St Basil’s? Have you ever wondered what Russia’s Arctic port city really looks like? What’s it like to travel in the kupe class of long-distance trains? Just how easy is it to get around when you don’t speak Russian?
Come and follow my adventures on my Russian Odyssey!
Welcome to my first Russia blog! Over the next couple of months, I’ll take you along on my journey, which I’ve been calling #JulietsRussianOdyssey on Instagram. In this post, I’m going to cover a few of the themes from the trip: where I went, the language barrier, the weather and what it was like being… More So, I went to Russia…
I’ve been talking about going to Russia for a long time. The trouble is, there’s a huge obstacle to getting there from the UK: how to get a Russian visa? You need a visa for lots of countries. I’ve done the forms and letters for people at work for Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Sierra… More How to get a Russian visa in the UK