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Captain’s log, Helstinky, and Gogol Bordello
(In the slim possibility this travel blog takes off (no pun), I will not mention specific airlines, or ticketing websites in case some day, I’m offered a sweet deal for my kind words. The particular...
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Kazan (Day 1)
Nestled on the Volga river and its tributaries, approximately 820 km due east of Moscow, sits Kazan, the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan. Kazan is steeped in a rich, mostly turbulent history,...
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Kazan – Sviyazhsk – Train to Moscow (Days 2-4)
A special thank you to Anastasia Prokofyeva for letting me use her shot as the feature. Better fit for the likes of Reuter’s or AP, instead of my humble blog, but more of her incredible photography to...
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Sixteen Hours in Moscow
Day 5 (front photo by Anastasia Prokofyeva) Krasnaya Ploschad, or Red Square. In Russian, ‘Krasnaya’ can mean red, or beautiful, the latter used less frequency. In this instance, the double meaning...
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Rise and Fall of the Russian Mullet
Greek in origin, reprised in the backwoods of Texarkana – the mullet is one of history’s most ridiculous haircuts; a haircut that penetrated the heart of Mother Russia in the early 90′s, sputtered out,...
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White Nights in Saint Petersburg
Days 6-10 The Window to the West, the Venice of the North – formally Petergrad, then Leningrad, whatever it is called, within minutes, I fall for Saint Petersburg. Saint Pete’s not St. Pete’s We shed...
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