Russia

February 24, 2015

Top 10 Favourite Trips To Europe

One of the main reasons I moved over to London was to be close to Europe and spend my time traveling. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of using my annual leave, bank holidays and weekends to see as much as I can. After visiting 22 different countries in Europe its pretty hard to narrow it down to just 10.

  1. Russia

Before moving over to Europe I had never really considered Russia as a top destination but after hearing a friend rave about her fantastic time there and being tempted by a cheap EasyJet flight I was keen to check it out. Six days and two Russian cities later I had had a trip of a lifetime with six other girlfriends. Moscow and St Petersburg were so different to the rest of Europe, with amazing history and culture. If its not already – put it on your to do list.

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June 21, 2013

From Russia With Love: St Petersburg

St Petersburg – what a city! About 5 minutes after arriving in St Petersburg I had already decided it was my favourite out of the two Russian cities we visited. While Moscow was interesting, it was also very concrete, large and bleak. Whereas in St Petersburg just walking between the metro station and our hostel we saw more colourful buildings, canals and the people just seemed friendlier.

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June 19, 2013

From Russia With Love: Moscow

Like many of my European adventures, my trip to Russia was inspired by an airline deal. EasyJet were advertising £50 flights to Moscow – what better excuse to go visit Russia? Originally planned for a long weekend, once my friend Kim and I started looking into the practicalities and what Russia had to offer, we realised that there was no way we could do this one in 3 days. So our trip extended from a few days in Moscow to a week with a visit to St Petersburg too. Then, once we realised the flights home from St Petersburg were super expensive, we thought we’d jump over the border into Estonia, check out Tallin, then fly home from there. Once we started talking about our baltic adventure the list of travel buddies suddenly jumped from two to six.

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