Russia and its neighbours... (1 Viewer)

[broken arm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad

 

[Buzzo]

Hope you don`t mind me asking - was the volunteer work in conjunction with college/study?Like did you have to have qualifications or meet certain requirements(or pay a load of money) to be accepted as a volunteer?

I did intend on going to Russia this year to Lake Baikal volunteering for these guys:
http://www.earthisland.org/ecotours/volunteer/eurasia/baikal.html

...but i got side-tracked/decided to do other things instead.

But i`ll definatly(all going well) be going the start of this summer for a few months.

We hang around with a very good guy who likes to help Russian street children. It was totally informal and was a holiday with buddies as much as a volunteering endeavour. We paid for it all out of our own pockets (except Broken Arm who robbed a bunch of sick people and old ladies) and it was worth every penny.

 

[Rimbaud]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad

Its meant to be a strange plac to visit.Alot of mafia carry on going down, and people live hard - so i`ve read anyway...Moldova is another oddity i`d be curious about.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

russia stuff...

so i read in one of your other posts that your in siberia right now! are you going to visit the kamchatka peninsula? i'd love to go there...

 

[Latex lizzie]

We hang around with a very good guy who likes to help Russian street children. It was totally informal and was a holiday with buddies as much as a volunteering endeavour. We paid for it all out of our own pockets (except Broken Arm who robbed a bunch of sick people and old ladies) and it was worth every penny.

perm yeah?

 

[Buzzo]

Perm yeah. Thinking of bailing over for a couple of months next year when I've done me scholarly dooties.

Wicked place.

Hey Rimbaud... how you getting on? Give all them deadly kids hugs for me.

 

[Rimbaud]

Hye Miss Piggy, nope, i`m not rich enough or fit enough to go to Kamchatka, its meant to be pretty expensive for expeditions there.Siberia was great though, bloody warm as hell for the few weeks i was there!
A gnag of us treked 50 km from Ust-Barguzin to the shore of lake Baikal(east side of the lake) , over 8 days building bridges over rivers and clearing away trails along the way.It got pretty cold in the tents at night, of course i was the only one to bring a summer sleeping bag with me.The others had been to Nepal and stuff, real outdoor people...healthy and all that stuff.I sweated tears the first day, walking upa mountian with a rucksack, 2 weeks worht of food, an ax and a cutters.Hardest day of my life.
Ulan Ude was a cool city, don`t believe the shite Lonely Planet writes, i don`t know what the researchers were doing - they write theres no food joints(shit loads of them) and recommend to go to the hotels for a beer(shtloads of cool bars too).Mopes.

'The kids are alright'! here in Perm.My secon day at the shelter finished a few hours ago, they took the piss out of my lack of russian though!!!
Perm is pretty good though, best city i`ve been to after Moscow!
Must go.