Day: 26 July 2007

Trans Siberian Railway

Ekaterinburg – Eurasia – photos

This is the outlet of the dam in central Ekaterinburg, which is now a feature of the riverside park.   This is the city hall.  Our driver, nicknamed Fast Eddie, copped some police attention for driving into the big square here the wrong way. This is the Church of the Blood, which idolises the executed […]

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Trans Siberian Railway

48 hours from Irkutsk to Ekaterinburg

This post has photos of our two days on the train between Irkutsk and Ekaterinburg.  Being summer, there are lots of flowers in bloom.  This meadow is full of a small purple flower.  The cow in the front was just good timing! Often enough, the Siberian landscape is interrupted by large industrial sites, including this power […]

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Trans Siberian Railway

Images of Baikal

We haven’t been able to post any photographs for a while, given that we’ve been on trains or haven’t had time to prepare photos for upload when we were in Ekaterinburg.  So, I’m going to upload three posts worth of photos to do a bit of catching up.  You’ll have to link up the images […]

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