23 August 2013 – Petrozavodsk, Russia
Sergey is loving russian slaw, while Jenia is giving a tour of local grocery store, providing some excellent vodka recommendation.
Sergey is loving russian slaw, while Jenia is giving a tour of local grocery store, providing some excellent vodka recommendation.
We’ve spent more than one day in Tirana, Albania — three days, in fact! — and found it to be a very pleasant experience to amble between our coffee shop of choice, several green spaces in downtown area, and a few monuments and notable buildings. Tirana is not going to win any awards for the…
Onboard of the shiny, very A/Ced express train from Bang Saphan to Bangkok, Thailand.
It’s 4 o’clock on the river! Just enjoying some hammock time in our bungalow at Bodhvilla guesthouse on Kampot river, Cambodia.
So, where are you from? – oh, you are Russian? No wait, you don’t have an accent… Oh you are American too? After many such conversations in a course of a year plus in travel, we don’t tend to over-think this part of getting to know other travelers too much. In general, we feel equally…
On our last day in Albania we decided on a little day trip from Tirana to Kruje Castle, the bastion of the most eulogized national hero: Skanderbeg. Skanderbeg was an Albanian noble who led a resistance movement – with some success – to the Ottoman Empire in mid 15th century. Pretty neat historical stuff. The castle…