Thread: сколько стоит ?

I thought the idea of traveling around was to do just that. If I go some where, I usually don't put a whole lot of planing into it. You just go where ever you want.

You want to go to vybourg? Is that because of the camera?

Doyboy, you are really easily influenced.

haha...matt we can find the camera... ah that would be so fun

Go and stand in front of the camera and then ring us up so we can look at you waving at us.

well, i wanted to see a small town too, because not all of russia is just highrise apartments, but since vyborg is the only small town i have ever heard of in russia, and it reletivly close to st.petersburg, why not?

easily influenced... i started learning russian didn't i.

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

i'd say give or take 500 kilometers

about 700

I was in Vyborg several years ago. Nice town, especially old fortress. There you can visit a museum of frontier guards and old sells where the prisoners in 18 century were under arrest.

Originally Posted by Veedey

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

i'd say give or take 500 kilometers

about 700

yay !! Veedey !!! Where have you been mate????

Hi,
I spent a couple of weeks in Moscow in Dec. 2001. You could get apts. over the internet for $50 a day back then, don't know if it's changed. I spent $70 if I remember rightly and it was very nice; beautiful location on the Garden Ring, very secure with all mod cons etc etc.
If you're not a newbie tourist you can get nice apts. for 300-500/month no doubt, and even lower if you're happy to be living at the end of the metro line.
Moscow has an expensive, expat/New Russian 'scene' for restaurants and clubs etc. and if you're not careful you can easily spend alot. Equally, you don't need to.

Bottom line is that, like so many other 'exotic' locations, you *will* spend too much as a first timer. That's just the way it works.

As to visas, I got the tourist invitation from one of several perfectly good agencies over the web which sell it fairly cheap, and then got the <1month tourist visa via some company in London.
The trick is that they give some meaningless info to the bureaucrats, and then when you get to Moscow you pop into their office in the first week and get it stamped/registered whatever. It's a doddle.
It's really not hard, just do a search on the Web. For longer stays you could consider the multiple-entry business visas (6 months/12 month) but the latter could set you back up to 200 $ (take my advice on this with a pinch of salt, since I haven't done it; do the research).

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