Tag Archives: Svetlogorsk
Euro 24 Non-Qualifiers Part 8 – Russia & Belarus
Due to the war in Ukraine, neither Russia or Belarus were invited to participate. Russia Due to Covid and the horrid war I have been denied the opportunity to ride on the trans-Siberian Express. My mate Poll and I had booked a trip from Helsinki to Vladivostok, with a side trip to Mongolia, which was […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 6 – Finland v Russia
Day six kicks off with a match up between neighbouring countries. The fact that it is in St Petersburg makes it a very short trip indeed for the Finns. With Finland once under Russia’s rule, this is likely to be a fiercely contested match. Finland I last visited Helsinki in 2019. I actually worked there […]
Sunday Photos – Kaliningrad, Russia
I should be in St Petersburg now at the start of a long anticipated trans-Mongolian rail adventure to Beijing. Sadly that has been put back until March 2021, though with Mongolia’s border shut like a clam for the foreseeable future, who knows when it might actually happen. Kaliningrad This means that Kaliningrad remains the only […]
A-Z April Challenge (Cities Visited) – K for Kaliningrad
I visited the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in 2014 for 72-hours, having arrived by bus from Gdansk and then leaving by train for Minsk. It has actually been my only visit to Russia thus far, although I do have a Trans- Mongolian train trip (St Petersburg to Beijing) booked for later this year that now […]
