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As you’d expect in a country which reaches right across the Eurasian continent, Russia boasts a very generous share of the great wonders of the natural world. The good news...

  It has been our dream to visit St Petersburg for many years but Moscow was never on our radar. Our perception of the Russian capital was of decrepit Stalin-era...

Imagine travelling back in time to the Russian Empire before the First World War and the maelstrom of the 1917 Revolution, before the ruthless

We have just received a ‘selfie’ from one of our private guides in St Petersburg. She (in centre) is pictured with 2 of our transsibers. We are often asked, ‘what...

A bit of humour to start your education regarding the data on a typical Russian rail ticket.

A nun chants at a lectern as others watch from the back of the whitewashed Russian Orthodox chapel, warmed by the slanting sun. Through the

Conceived from the first as one of Europe’s great cities, St Petersburg grew from the vision of one extraordinary man. Peter the Great engaged Europe’s finest

Words and photographs cannot describe the magnificence of the Mongolian steppes. It was a five hour bumpy drive to our camp, 300 km beyond the capital, traversing vast sweeping plains...

When in Rome… one must visit St Peter’s; in London, Trafalgar Square. Red Square, flanked by the domes of St Basil’s and the Kremlin fortress, is another of the world’s...

Do a few glasses of Great Wall red wine help or hinder when using Chinese toilets in the middle of the night whilst the bogies are being changed on the...