Markets day/Märktetag
Wherever we travel, we try to visit markets. They are a fantastic kaleidoscope of society – giving an insight into normal household...
Buried beauties/Vergrabene Schönheiten
Visiting Moscow and not using the metro subway system should be penalized. Since the differently coloured metro lines are like blood...
Standard program
Our day started with the obligatory Lenin visit. Queuing for over an hour, being lucky. Eight minutes later the chimes of the Spassky...
Moscow impressions/Bilder aus Moskau
Churches everywhere, American inspirations, down-to-earth people and half (!!) of the vodka assortment in an upper supermarket. Überall...
km 2.171: Говорит Москва (Moscow speaking...)
Moscow! 12 million inhabitants. The Moscow subway is the most efficient system globally with 7 million passengers per day. No timetable....
Poland was flying by/Polen fliegt vorbei
Just 12 hours by train and we've crossed the whole country. A country with wonderful as well as terrible memories for our family (more...
Paris Moscow express
Irrespective of its grandiose name, the "express" arrived more than 120 minutes late in Berlin. Time for a small train station breakfast...
km 273: Changing trains in Berlin/Umsteigen in Berlin
Before entering the Paris - Moscow express we paid a flying visit to the symbol of both the divided and the reunited Berlin. In January...
km 0: Off we go/Auf geht's
Finally!! After weeks and months of planning, today we have started our journey by literally hopping onto the nearest train. A nice...
Getting worried
To start with: great picture!! Looks like we are getting nice photos. However, I don't know whether we will be able to blog them...
Taking photos
While you are planning out our trip and organising tons of stuff I'm preparing in a different way. Expectations are high and with every...
Vaccinations
Tomorrow I'll have my last cholera oral vaccination. That's it for me.
Showing off
Stickers and T-shirts are ready! Your mother took care of them. Looking great, don't they? Step by step we make it to the starting line....
First traintickets
And here we go. That's the cool app I used to book the tickets for the Transsiberian from Moscow to Irkutsk. Booked and stored on the...
Transit to Russia
Belorussian 2-days transit visas. More expensive than the Russian 30-days-holidays ones...
