DavidJennyTravel

We got the green line of the metro from Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo to Gostinii Dvor metro station and walked down Nevskii Prospekt to the General Staff Building at the northern … Read more

We moved into our new room at midday. It is very acceptable for 6,000 Rub/day which is cheap by St Petersburg standards given its position on (almost) Nevskii Prospekt. We … Read more

In the morning we had a great stroke of luck in meeting the hotel manager, Kseniya, who let us stay in the same room tonight (I hope she didn’t throw … Read more

We got the metro to Komsomolskaya station with no problem and then bought tickets for the Sapsan high-speed train to St Petersburg. The journey of 439 miles took 4 hours … Read more

After a good breakfast, we waked down to Khoroshevskaya metro station and took the black line to Luzhniki which, according to my map, was linked to Sportivaya on the red … Read more

Our long-distance trip for 2025 will be undertaken by public transport as the van is still in Stornoway after a collision with a deer. Its repair is due to begin … Read more

An uneventful day of long driving (324 miles) with nothing much to report. The scenery was glorious: high light-brown rounded bare hills with the occasional brown or olive green bush … Read more

Day 126 (1st November) Findikli to Gumushane The road to Gumushane thankfully turned left at the eastern edge of Trabzon, a million-strong city where we got lost in May. The … Read more

We succeeded in driving from the Russia/Georgia border through the whole of Georgia despite the Tbilisi-Batumi motorway still under construction and we had to make frequent diversions with inadequate signposting. … Read more