mercoledì 24 giugno 2009

our 2 Transsiberiandream TSU weeks in Russia

Oggi mi è arrivata questa mail col programma della Summer... mi sono scompisciata dal ridere leggendo l'introduzione...
la Summer promette bene... ;))

HERE IS A DRAFT PROGRAMME OF TSU. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT OR FIND SOMETHING STRANGE FOR U PLEASE DON'T HESISTATE TO ASK

PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME PARTS OF PROGRAMME ARE CHANGEABLE ACCORDING TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS,
ABILITY OF SOME PARTICIPANTS/ORGANISERS TO WAKE UP, ALKOHOL INTOXICATION ETC.

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:: 3. JULY :: SAINT-PETERSBURG ::
Lodging: private hosts (we'll send u address and phone numbers of hosts)
Arrival: we'll meet all participants and guide them to their hosts.
20:00 Welcome Evening at "Zelionoje Uho"
22:00 Club "Sochi" time
01:30 Watching Opened Bridges (outside, walking on the bank of a river)

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:: 4. JULY :: SAINT-PETERSBURG ::
Breakfast: at hosts
11:00 City tour: Bank of the river, Church on Spilled Blood etc. (by Masha Glukhova)
14:00 Lunch
16:00 Boat trip "The city from the water view"
17:00 Free time
22:00 European drinking night

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:: 5. JULY :: SAINT-PETERSBURG ::
Breakfast: at hosts
11:00 Visiting 2nd biggest museum in the world "Hermitage"
14:00 Free time / Optional: Visiting Isaak Cathedral (city from the birds view)
20:00 Dinner at "Zelionoje Ukho"
22:00 Club "Red Club" time

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:: 6. JULY :: SAINT-PETERSBURG ::
Breakfast: at hosts
11:00 Meeting point: Avtovo matro station
Going to Peterhof Palace by mini-buses
12:00 Arriving to Peterhof
12:30 Fountain rally
14:30 Lunch
17:00 Leaving Peterhof
18:00 Free time
23:30 Meeting at the Moskovsky trainstation
00:40 Night train to Moscow

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:: 7. JULY :: MOSCOW ::
Lodging: at private hosts
09:53 Arriving to Moscow
10:00 Going to lodging places
Breakfast: at hosts
13:00 Meeting at Smolenskaya metro station
City tour 1: Old Arbat - Nikitsy boulevard - Tverskaya
15:00 Lunch at "Mu-Mu" on Tverskaya
16:30 Visiting Kremlin (don't take bags with u)
17:30 City tour 2: Red square - Bolotnaya square - Novokuznetskaya
19:00 Free time
21:30 Club "B2" time (may be dress-code on the entrance)

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:: 8. JULY :: MOSCOW ::
Breakfast at hosts
11:00 Meeting at Kolomenskaya metro station
Visiting "Kolomenskoje" park with traditional russian churches and stuff
14:30 Lunch at "Kruzhka"
15:30 Free time / Optional: visiting "Poklonnaya gora" - city view
22:00 Meeting at the trainstation
22:55 Departure to Ekaterinburg train #068Ы

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:: 9. JULY :: TRAIN ::
- Watching landscape
- Breakfast & dinner in train
- Playing pocker
- Vodka drinkig workshop
- Alco-games

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:: 10. JULY :: EKATERINBURG ::
06:26 Arrival to Ekaterinburg
07:00 Lodging at hotel "Sverdlovsk"
09:00 Breakfast (at hotel)
11:00 City tour by localmembers of Couchsurfing group
14:00 Lunch
17:00 Free time / Optional: Going to "Ural-ROCK" Bikers festival (entrance 500 rub) outside of the city

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:: 11. JULY :: EKATERINBURG ::
09:00 Leaving the hotel
09:30 Breakfast
11:00 Going to "Europe-Asia" border and "Ganina yama" monument by excursion bus
17:00 Lunch
18:00 Free time / Optional: joining "Couchsurfing-Ekaterinburg group birthday" picnic
22:00 Meeting at the trainstation
22:55 Departure to Irkutsk

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:: 12. JULY :: TRAIN ::

- Watching landscape
- Breakfast & dinner in train
- Landscape watching
- Drinking games
- Celebrating birthday of Vlado

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:: 13. JULY :: TRAIN ::
- "How to survive 2nd day in russian train" workshop
- Breakfast & dinner in train
- Drinking games
- Watching landscape

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:: 14. JULY :: IRKUTSK ::
09:38 Arrival to Irkutsk
10:00 Going to busstation
10:30 Quick breakfast
11:00 Leaving to Olkhon Island by bus
18:00 Arriving to camping site "Turbaikal" on Olkhon island
18:30 Organizing tents

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:: 15. JULY :: BAIKAL LAKE ::
Lodging: in tents
Meal: 3 times per day at camping site
Excursions on island are included in Optional part and are organized by a camping site.
List of excursions and different possibilities to have rest (sauna, boat trips, bike rental) provided by camping site & prices will be available.
- Relaxing after long train trip
- Having fun in the nature
- Drinking games

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:: 16. JULY :: BAIKAL LAKE ::
- Swimming in the lake
- Lesson about "Ecosystem of Baikal Lake" by Masha Myznikova
- Sport & non-sport
- Drinking games

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:: 17. JULY :: BAIKAL LAKE ::
- Good-bye party
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lunedì 1 giugno 2009

bought my tickets...how I will get to and out of Russia...

C'è gente malata a cui non piace fare le cose semplici e prendere voli diretti che portano comodamente a destinazione...
c'è gente malata che quando pensa agli itinerari di viaggio non pensa che già dovrà percorrere 6.000 km in treno in Russia e la quantità di km da percorrere la raddoppia....
c'è gente che quando pensa alle vacanze riesce ad elucubrare un micidiale itinerario che la porterà in 7 nazioni in un mese..
se state leggendo questo credo siate già consapevoli di avere un'amica molto folle e squilibrata...e questa è solo una delle tante conferme... ;))

Guardate un po' che itinerario ho pensato per raggiungere San Pietroburgo senza spendere un capitale e visitando qualcosa e qualche amico nel processo..
le vittime sembrano essere le capitali baltiche..
Ancora una volta grazie alla premiata ditta Ryan air.. (per 4 voli 13 euro!!!!...devo solo ancora aggiungere le valige)

Andata : Orio- Frankfurt Hahn (10 ore da aspettare)- Gdansk (Danzica, Polonia)

Poi mi fermo a Gdansk una sera e il giorno dopo e mi ospita Kuba.
Il giorno dopo vado a Varsavia in bus dove incontro Magda.
Da lì andrò col bus notturno a Vilnius, Lituania.
Alla sera poi prenderò un treno per San Pietroburgo e finalmente sarò in territorio russo...




E questo è il ritorno già fissato:
Riga- Stoccolma(notte in aeroporto)- Orio...
Pensavo di prendere un treno da Mosca a Tallinn e poi da Tallinn a Riga un bus notturno...vedremo..
Purtroppo non avrò tempo di vedere Stoccolma perchè l'aeroporto è a 170 km dal centro...e non ho programmato giorni lì perchè pensavo di andare in Russia attraversando la Scandinavia volando a Oslo...poi sono rinsavita e ho capito che sarebbe stata una sfacchinata incredibile e avrei avuto ben poco tempo per visitare 3 nazioni che mi interessano,quindi ho pensato all'itinerario polacco-baltico, ben contenta di rivedere 2 cari amici conosciuti a Malta.




Nei prossimi giorni cercherò di prenotare qualche bus...
la Russia si avvicina (a parte la disperazione del visto!!!)

I miei viaggi

Travel Map
I've been to 141 cities in 22 countries
Europe
Austria: Baden
Austria: Vienna
Czech Republic: Brno
Czech Republic: Ceske Budejovice
Czech Republic: Cesky Krumlov
Czech Republic: Prague
Estonia: Tallinn
France: Carcassonne
France: Colmar
France: Lourdes
France: Riquewihr
France: Strasbourg
France: Toulouse
Germany: Bamberg
Germany: Berlin
Germany: Bremen
Germany: Dachau
Germany: Dresden
Germany: Dusseldorf
Germany: Hahn
Germany: Hamburg
Germany: Hannover
Germany: Heidelberg
Germany: Kalkriese
Germany: Koln
Germany: Ladenburg
Germany: Leipzig
Germany: Lubeck
Germany: Ludwigsburg
Germany: Magdeburg
Germany: Mainz
Germany: Munich
Germany: Munster
Germany: Neustrelitz
Germany: Nurnberg
Germany: Osnabruck
Germany: Potsdam
Germany: Regensburg
Germany: Rostock
Germany: Sassnitz
Germany: Schwetzingen
Germany: Speyer
Germany: Stralsund
Germany: Stuttgart
Germany: Teklenburg
Germany: Trier
Germany: Weimar
Germany: Worms
Holy See (Vatican City): Vatican City
Ireland: Dublin
Italy: Bergamo
Italy: Brescia
Italy: Cattolica
Italy: Cervia
Italy: Como
Italy: Corciano
Italy: Erice
Italy: Ferrara
Italy: Florence
Italy: Genova
Italy: Lecco
Italy: Mantova
Italy: Mestre
Italy: Milano
Italy: Monza
Italy: Novara
Italy: Padova
Italy: Parma
Italy: Perugia
Italy: Ravenna
Italy: Rimini
Italy: Rome
Italy: Rovereto
Italy: Siena
Italy: Trapani
Italy: Tremezzo
Italy: Trento
Italy: Treviso
Italy: Varenna
Italy: Varese
Italy: Venice
Italy: Verona
Latvia: Riga
Lithuania: Vilnius
Luxembourg: Luxembourg
Malta: Ghaxaq
Malta: Luqa
Malta: Marsaxlokk
Malta: Mdina
Malta: Rabat
Malta: Valletta
Poland: Czestochowa
Poland: Gdansk
Poland: Katowice
Poland: Krakow
Poland: Warsaw
Poland: Wieliczka
Portugal: Lisboa
Russia: Baykal
Russia: Irkutsk
Russia: Krasnoyarsk
Russia: Moscow
Russia: Peterhof
Russia: Suzdal'
Russia: Vladimir
San Marino: San Marino
Slovakia: Bratislava
Slovenia: Ajdovscina
Slovenia: Bled
Slovenia: Koper
Slovenia: Ljubljana
Slovenia: Piran
Slovenia: Radovljica
Spain: Barcelona
Spain: Gerona
Spain: Madrid
Spain: Tarragona
Sweden: Stockholm
Switzerland: Bellinzona
Switzerland: Chiasso
Switzerland: Lugano
Switzerland: Luzern
Switzerland: Zurich
United Kingdom: Bournemouth
United Kingdom: Brighton
United Kingdom: Greenwich
United Kingdom: London
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