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Re: Rostov on-Don - now Moscow
« Reply #25 on: September 06, 2018, 08:37:33 PM »
Be sure to give us your impression of Moscow


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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #26 on: September 07, 2018, 08:26:05 PM »
Damn,


I wrote  lenghty report of my experiences here in Russia and it all disappeared when I pressed Preview.....
Are there ANY cons to this site anymore???

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #27 on: September 07, 2018, 09:56:40 PM »
Hmm, pressing preview doesn't lose what I've written .. but I do not doubt you...

Something must have gone wrong with your connection or your session on here timed out  . Increase that when you login in or tick stay logged in ;)

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #28 on: September 07, 2018, 10:05:08 PM »
Natural,

always best to open a text editor and do lengthy posts there, then copy and paste what you wrote into the post here.  Have had several long posts wiped due to a glitch...

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2018, 05:02:02 PM »
Natural,

always best to open a text editor and do lengthy posts there, then copy and paste what you wrote into the post here.  Have had several long posts wiped due to a glitch...

Yes. I have had that happening before, but I just forgot about the risk this time. It makes no difference if writing something short, but is very disappointing when you have applied yourself and spent a long time writing something that you hoped would be of some value to someone, just to lose it all in the great void  :-(

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #30 on: September 09, 2018, 05:41:28 PM »
Any report in how you enjoyed moscow’s 871st B-day? I heard they had a great celebration with fireworks and such.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #31 on: September 10, 2018, 05:14:24 PM »
Any report in how you enjoyed moscow’s 871st B-day? I heard they had a great celebration with fireworks and such.

Yeah, in the days leading up to the birthday of Moscow, as well as the local election, a lot of construction and preparations were going on, parts of the Kremlin were sealed off, but we went there too.
A little background info, as I’m now back home in Norway again after a fantastic 12-day adventure. I’m so happy I did it and accepted the invitation of some friends I over the course of several months developed great trust and friendship with.
The initial goal was to meet the couple from Donbass in Rostov-on-Don and then cross the border into Donbass. (Now; I write this and IF my travel thread is polluted and degraded by certain individuals and their nasty propaganda, it’ll be the last one I ever make on here. I know there are decent folks here, like GQBlues, for example, and this is for them.)
 
They met me at my hotel in Rostov. They don’t speak English and I don’t speak Russian, but surprisingly, Google Translation works pretty decent most of the time. So we met and hugged and off we went in their car. We came to the border. First the Russian border. (I will try to make this short as I wrote it up for hours the other day, in vain).

There was a lot of waiting and they checked all the cars, all the suitcases and all the papers. My presence there caught their interest and, let’s call her Wonderwoman, and me were guided into an office and interrogated by two rather young officials. One of them reminded me very much of the character from the movie King Kong (the one who played an actor) and I noticed he was observing me while Wonderwoman explained things to them in Russian.

Finally we were let go and proceeded to the Donbass checkpoint, but only after doing some shopping at the small Duty Free shop. I have never seen prices for booze and cigarettes this low, haha.

Then we stopped at the DPR checkpoint and had to go into an office where a guy in military outfit questioned, them, not me, as he could not speak English. It was lengthy and on a couple of occasions I was handed a phone and talked to a man on the other hand in English.

At the end he told me I could not enter the Donbass. We were all surprised. The reason given was because of the political situation. Wonderwoman was devastated and embarrassed but then she told me about the news she got on her phone, at the exact time we were on the border, the bomb went off in a café in Donetsk which killed the President, Zackarchenko. The borders were closed. Went drove back into Russian territory and took into a hotel near the border and drove to Rostov the following day.

They had to go back to Donbass the next day, but they were not happy about leaving me in Rostov on my own. I told them I’ll be fine and the following day they came back and I rented a hotel room for them, across the hall of my room and we spend a couple of wonderful days as tourists in the city, for them a much appreciated break from the war and suffering they see daily in Donbass and for all of us a chance to get to know each other on a personal level.

They are great people. He, like many Russians of course, like a drink or two and we made many trips outside for a smoke and actually managed to communicate surprisingly much, considering the language barrier. But, I noticed on more than one occasion that the Russian who says he/she does not speak English, surprised me many times of the words they really knew and how quickly, given practice, they improved.But the two days passed and I still had several days left of my trip….. to be continued.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #32 on: September 10, 2018, 06:10:32 PM »
Hey, R,

You should know that we can't read your posts (unless we use a microscope).  You may have the same problem GQBlues had with Chrome.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #33 on: September 10, 2018, 06:15:19 PM »
Hey, R,

You should know that we can't read your posts (unless we use a microscope).  You may have the same problem GQBlues had with Chrome.


Huh, what's up with that? Use Chrome yes, but it is so much more stable than Explorer in other ways.... well, I will just have to spend more time here, trying to improve things, haha

Thank you for letting me know about the problem, I had no idea.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #34 on: September 10, 2018, 06:18:09 PM »
Yeah, in the days leading up to the birthday of Moscow, as well as the local election, a lot of construction and preparations were going on, parts of the Kremlin were sealed off, but we went there too.

A little background info, as I’m now back home in Norway again after a fantastic 12-day adventure. I’m so happy I did it and accepted the invitation of some friends I over the course of several months developed great trust and friendship with.

The initial goal was to meet the couple from Donbass in Rostov-on-Don and then cross the border into Donbass. (Now; I write this and IF my travel thread is polluted and degraded by certain individuals and their nasty propaganda, it’ll be the last one I ever make on here. I know there are decent folks here, like GQBlues, for example, and this is for them.)
 
 They met me at my hotel in Rostov. They don’t speak English and I don’t speak Russian, but surprisingly, Google Translation works pretty decent most of the time.

So we met and hugged and off we went in their car. We came to the border. First the Russian border. (I will try to make this short as I wrote it up for hours the other day, in vain).

There was a lot of waiting and they checked all the cars, all the suitcases and all the papers. My presence there caught their interest and, let’s call her Wonderwoman, and me were guided into an office and interrogated by two rather young officials. One of them reminded me very much of the character from the movie King Kong (the one who played an actor) and I noticed he was observing me while Wonderwoman explained things to them in Russian.
Finally we were let go and proceeded to the Donbass checkpoint, but only after doing some shopping at the small Duty Free shop. I have never seen prices for booze and cigarettes this low, haha.

Then we stopped at the DPR checkpoint and had to go into an office where a guy in military outfit questioned, them, not me, as he could not speak English. It was lengthy and on a couple of occasions I was handed a phone and talked to a man on the other hand in English.
At the end he told me I could not enter the Donbass. We were all surprised. The reason given was because of the political situation.

Wonderwoman was devastated and embarrassed but then she told me about the news she got on her phone, at the exact time we were on the border, the bomb went off in a café in Donetsk which killed the President, Zackarchenko. The borders were closed.

So we drove back into Russian territory and took into a hotel near the border and drove to Rostov the following day.

They had to go back to Donbass the next day, but they were not happy about leaving me in Rostov on my own. Wonderwoman had a couple of months earlier personally invited me to come visit them and she felt a deep responsibility for my security and well-being. It was very moving. I could see it in her face. She again and again promised to come back to me. For me it's no problem being alone in a strange Place for a night or two, but I appreciate her concern for me extremely much. I told them I’ll be fine and the following day they came back and I rented a hotel room for them, across the hall of my room and we spend a couple of wonderful days as tourists in the city, for them a much appreciated break from the war and suffering they see daily in Donbass, and for all of us a chance to get to know each other on a personal level.

They are great people. He, like many Russians of course, like a drink or two and we made many trips outside for a smoke and actually managed to communicate surprisingly much, considering the language barrier. But, I noticed on more than one occasion that the Russian who says he/she does not speak English, surprised me many times of the words they really knew and how quickly, given practice, they improved.

But the two days passed and I still had several days left of my trip….. to be continued.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #35 on: September 10, 2018, 06:25:22 PM »
Huh, what's up with that? Use Chrome yes, but it is so much more stable than Explorer in other ways.... well, I will just have to spend more time here, trying to improve things, haha

I don't think Microsoft is supporting Internet Explorer anymore. I lost the ability to see posters YouTube videos on Explorer so I switched to Chrome for awhile but unfortunately some of my posts went tiny and I had to go back and edit posts to make the words larger. Got tired of that.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #36 on: September 10, 2018, 06:29:39 PM »
Thanks for sharing, I'd be interested in more detail as I'm curious how locals get in and out of Donbass region (as well as foreigners). Do they stamp passports?

I am consideirng visiting a (male) friend in Crimea but that is totally different to Donbass.

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #37 on: September 10, 2018, 06:40:34 PM »
Thanks for sharing, I'd be interested in more detail as I'm curious how locals get in and out of Donbass region (as well as foreigners). Do they stamp passports?

I am consideirng visiting a (male) friend in Crimea but that is totally different to Donbass.

Locals do cross the border alright, but the lines in wait might be hours, so take that into consideration.

In the early days, foreigners (non-Donbass and Russian) could go in and out, but nowadays it seems at a minimum you need to be escorted by Donbass residents if crossing the border. My case was exceptional, (always happens strange Things when I make big trips.)

To be even more safe to enter, sign up with a group that has connections to the authorities. At the border they're not mean or overly suspicious. I Guess it is as they say, a very delicate political situation and they don't need a western tourist being harmed by shelling, for example. I can understand that.

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #38 on: September 10, 2018, 06:47:00 PM »
Oh, test photo. I thought I had to reduce the size and all :-)
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #39 on: September 11, 2018, 03:27:03 PM »
Interesting report/travel. I can't help but wonder if you had some itch to 'live on the edge' considering the volatility in the region so far. Sans the hotel bit. If you don't mind me asking - I know it was a trip to meet the people you knew - but what was the actual impetus of going there? Humanitarian reasons, business or just a calling?

I can only hope sooner than later that things will normalize in the region for the benefit of all.

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #40 on: September 12, 2018, 01:04:40 AM »
Interesting report/travel. I can't help but wonder if you had some itch to 'live on the edge' considering the volatility in the region so far. Sans the hotel bit. If you don't mind me asking - I know it was a trip to meet the people you knew - but what was the actual impetus of going there? Humanitarian reasons, business or just a calling?

I can only hope sooner than later that things will normalize in the region for the benefit of all.


For a number of months I have sent money to 2-3 families in the area, for food and medicines mostly, but even a bicycle for a 9-year old boy that dreamed of a bike. The couple that invited me work for a humanitarian organisation locally based, we developed trust and caring between us and they would like to invite me to see the situation up close, meet a bunch of different people. So yes, one might call it a private humanitarian trip.


Lately the situation in the Donetsk area have been quiet given there's a war going on. The front is x kilometres away.
I know of westerners visiting front areas like Gorlovka and Zaitsevo, but I did not plan to do that. I have a 5-year old son to think about. But the idea of crossing the border and visiting them in the quiet (except bomb blast in the cafe) Donetsk area, did not make me nervous. It's a pity it didn't work out. But instead I got to see more of Rostov-on-Don and Moscow.


More to come when time allows.....

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #41 on: September 12, 2018, 10:13:18 AM »

For a number of months I have sent money to 2-3 families in the area, for food and medicines mostly, but even a bicycle for a 9-year old boy that dreamed of a bike. The couple that invited me work for a humanitarian organisation locally based, we developed trust and caring between us and they would like to invite me to see the situation up close, meet a bunch of different people. So yes, one might call it a private humanitarian trip.

Lately the situation in the Donetsk area have been quiet given there's a war going on. The front is x kilometres away.
I know of westerners visiting front areas like Gorlovka and Zaitsevo, but I did not plan to do that. I have a 5-year old son to think about. But the idea of crossing the border and visiting them in the quiet (except bomb blast in the cafe) Donetsk area, did not make me nervous. It's a pity it didn't work out. But instead I got to see more of Rostov-on-Don and Moscow.

More to come when time allows.....

I thought so.  :clapping:

Keep the report coming!
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #42 on: September 13, 2018, 01:15:18 AM »

Anyhoo...  Natural, good to see someone visit that neck of the woods and meet with the locals instead of all the agency BS.  I've seen Rostov really grow but haven't been there recently.  Remember trying to hunt down internet cafe's and now they have better internet at home than most of us westerners.  Maybe next year.  I work with folks that live near Donetsk and hope to visit them soon also.

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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #43 on: September 13, 2018, 11:16:53 AM »
When I went off to Rostov, I packed two suitcases plus the carry-on. I packed some used, but perfectly fine clothes for children that our son has outgrown, as well as I bought a rather good quantity of clothes on sale, 50-70%, clothes for newborns up to teenagers. Gift wrapped present for members of the families I have helped out over the past several months. Bought two ASUS computers at a discount, they're only 32 GB capacity, but was assured by Wonderwoman in advance that it is still much better than the 10 year old computer she works with daily. She got one of them and a 28-year old single mother in hospital for months being treated for tubercolosis, got the other. I brought with me cash in Euros which I upon arrival exchanged for rubles, put in funds for the next couple of months for foods in envelopes to the families and gave to Wonderwoman that brought it when they drove back to Donetsk.

Now, I'm sure many think if that procedure can be trusted. And the answer in this case is a definetely yes, as she and the humanitarian organization she works for was ensured to me by a Russian woman living in Norway, to be totally legit. That, as well as my vast correspondance with Wonderwoman over several months and the fact that she is required to keep records of money in and out, receipts and photo evidence online, made me rest easy my help did arrive to the people I intended and not elsewhere.

If others want to help out people like that, I do however advise not being naive and do some research and make sure you trust the right people. There will always be scammers about anywhere, but also good, decent people that do a tremendous effort to help out their own people as much as they can. They need some help and attention too and the emotional scars they get from all the suffering they see on a daily basis cannot be overemphasized.

It is a good feeling to see photos of the people receiving bags of foods that will really help them out in a desperate situation where the typical 3000 rubles a month is impossible to live on.

More tomorrow...
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #44 on: September 14, 2018, 02:17:29 PM »
The trip down to Rostov-na-Donu was a long one. About 24 hours. I live well north of the Arctic Circle and I made the 2 ½ hour drive from home to the airport of Harstad/Evenes for the first of three legs of flight. Landed in Oslo/Gardermoen and had a few hours to wait there.

Unfortunately Aeroflot don’t have the electronic check-in and baggage drop, so I had to impatiently wait until they started checking in manually. At the line, where I had made a little room between myself and the person in front of me in the waiting line, I encountered the only somewhat rude behavior of my trip. Two rather elderly Russian women just passed me in the line and got in front of me, like it’s the most natural thing in the world to do. I didn’t say or do anything about it, not wanting to ruin my good mood.

Then the flight to Sheremetevo which departed at 21:05, took about 2 hours 20 minutes.
The signs to show where to go to reach your terminal is in my opinion not optimal here. I knew of course which terminal I was at and which to go to, but it was strange and a bit of a challenge to figure out. So by asking I was told by a guard to enter this doorway he was standing in. Through another door and then into a small hall with chairs and desks similar to a check-in. I was puzzled. Saw someone exit on the other side which led to a bigger hall. Wasn’t sure, so I turned back to ask the woman behind the counter, but she was busy and a guard and paramedics were busy attending to an old man who had dropped on the floor.

So I just exited and wandered further into the maze. Was approached by a couple of taxi drivers that wanted me to take advantage of their service but that I politely refused. At that point I kinda felt I was in the right direction as I climbed a flight of stairs. Then some more walking and downs some stairs and finally to the end where I saw the sign of my terminal and realized it was a train ride away. I had been told that to move between certain terminals it sometimes is necessary to use the free of charge train service, but I didn’t think it would apply this time, but it did.

I walked around looking at things and people before settling down at my exit gate, all alone. It was nighttime and at 4 am I really struggled with tiredness, but I kept awake and jumped on the early morning flight to Rostov.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #45 on: September 14, 2018, 03:02:58 PM »
Brings back memories of SVO - DME challenges for me. And that's from the old SVO. I had a nightmare experience flying out of SVO during the weekend of the Beslan tragedy. I was honestly resigned I'd be stuck there for at least a couple of days.


But WOW! 3 connecting flights to get to Rostov! I hate those layovers myself...
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #46 on: September 14, 2018, 05:13:27 PM »
At the line, where I had made a little room between myself and the person in front of me in the waiting line, I encountered the only somewhat rude behavior of my trip. Two rather elderly Russian women just passed me in the line and got in front of me, like it’s the most natural thing in the world to do.


I've seen stuff like that too. If there's open space in line at the airport, it gets filled up quick.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #47 on: September 14, 2018, 07:37:44 PM »
Not in front of me it wouldn't ...  a tap on  the shoulder and a thumb to the back ...    followed by an 'overtake' if no response..

They were trying it on or .. (very unlikely) just a mistake

Back in 2007 - at DME-  'new Russian' - dressed all in black - walked straight to the front and tried to check-in or the same flight as me..

He was in business class and there was a longer queue - so thought he'd use mine...

I told him to wait - as had the check-in girl ...he stormed off back to the end of the biz class line and she thanked me asked me in perfect English - if I'd like a little fun and she upgraded me to Biz class and put me next to him ....  on the flt to Volgograd ... he moved to another seat - behind me ..

Business class was cool as it was the first time I'd seen a monitor showing the pilot's view of take-off and landing


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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #48 on: September 14, 2018, 08:51:51 PM »
I was in Egypt at all inclusive resort.  For dinner line entrance, a Russian guy and gal (my woman advised me of their nationality) walked right to front of line.  We were about 5 back.  I loudly said: "There is a line here."

I think it startled the Russian guy so much, that he quickly moved to the back of the line.
He was actually bigger and younger than me . . . so really glad he didn't try to make an issue of it.

Another time on a plane that came from Moscow to JFK; the Russians jumped out of seats as soon as the plane touched down.  I loudly yelled out:  "Sit down . . . you aren't in Russian anymore."

Again, somewhat to my surprise, they all sat back down.  The Flight Attendant nearest to me, came by and said:  "WOW, that never works when I say it."
But then they never yell as loud as I did.

Later, while waiting for luggage, a couple of the RM came by me and said:  Here is Mr Tough Guy.  But they moved on and I never saw them again.
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Re: Rostov on-Don
« Reply #49 on: September 14, 2018, 10:14:23 PM »
Mr Tough Guy.


I think that mustache of yours intimidates people. Don't shave it off. Have you ever sung the song YMCA?

My wife was so proud when she got her American citizenship. I educated her on the benefits. I told her she can go to the front of the line at international airports, hold up her American passport and say "It's okay everybody! I'm an American!" I told her it's an American right to be an asshole.
Fund the audits, spread the word and educate people, write your politicians and other elected officials. Stay active in the fight to save our country. Over 220 generals and admirals say we are in a fight for our survival like no other time since 1776.

 

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