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The Trans-Siberian Railway: Moscow-Vladivostok

It is the Moscow to Vladivostok route that is the Trans-Siberian Railway proper, as opposed to the two other trans-Eurasian routes that end up in Beijing. The main route of the Trans-Siberian starts at Moscow, passing through Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and finally Vladivostok, taking seven days on its 6,152 mile route.
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Bergen – cool in more ways than one

Bergen is a fishing port on the south-western coast of Norway, and was a vital trading center back in the days of the Hanseatic League, so much so, that it has a Museum of the Hanseatic League. Nowadays Bergen is a modern city, and lively cultural center, but, like a lot of Scandinavian cities, is […]