One of the top concerns of international travel, right after finding free toilets in your moment of need, is food. Low blood sugar and unfamiliar cities don’t mix. One moment you’re winding your long, hungry way toward the Guide Book’s top-rated breakfast cafe, the next moment you’re standing in an empty cobblestone street very clearly [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Russia Day 6: St. Petersburg
August 23, 2008 – 10:03 pm
We’re home. It takes some getting used to; “The people around me can understand what I’m saying? For real?” I’m still waking up at 4 in the morning and going to bed before sunset, but we’ve more or less recovered. As such: on to St. Petersburg. We arrived early into a beautiful morning. St. Petersburg [...]
Last Day in Russia
August 19, 2008 – 5:12 am
Today’s our last day; we leave tomorrow morning. So sad. I’ve only made it through half our time here on the ol’ blag, but I’ll get to the rest eventually. Just not while we’re here. In the meantime: NO PRANCING. (Image credit for prancing man: Andrew’s sister Jane. I never managed to grab this shot [...]
Russia Day 5: Petrozavodsk
August 18, 2008 – 3:54 pm
To properly capture the full arc of day five, we have to begin before dawn. Russian train cars are charming in many ways, but climate control is not one of those ways. (Also septic disposal, which is accomplished by simply flushing the toilet onto the tracks—but I digress.) Some cars feature a top window that [...]
Russia Day 4
August 17, 2008 – 2:50 pm
We’re back from St. Petersburg and points north. E has a vicious blister on her little toe, and I… well, let’s just say I appear to have unwittingly consumed some Petersburg water, even though I thought I had carefully avoided it. (Teeth brushed with bottled water: check.) Aside from that and three days of cumulative [...]