After Vladimir, it was a short-ish hop on the train to Nizhny Novgorod (about two hours). After being slightly perturbed that the tram was taking a completely different route to the one marked in the Lonely Plant, we actually found the hotel without any great difficulty.
Nizhny (as locals apparently call it) has a lovely setting on the Volga river - before the Trans-Siberian, the major way of getting goods and people around this enormous country. It has a lovely Kremlin, which has a concert hall which is great on the outside and Soviet inside. Unable to pass up the opportunity to see the Nizhny Novgorod philharmonic orchestra at home, Eve spent a while trying to buy tickets for the evening's performance. Turns out that our money was being refused because they were in a season of free concerts - it just took us about 10 mins of passing the dictionary back and forwards to work this out!
After the concert we headed for the CCCP bar which was ironically dripping in Society memorabilia - Stalin busts, propaganda posters and the like. Life was so good back then, everyone had to be reminded just how good it was.
Nizhny (as locals apparently call it) has a lovely setting on the Volga river - before the Trans-Siberian, the major way of getting goods and people around this enormous country. It has a lovely Kremlin, which has a concert hall which is great on the outside and Soviet inside. Unable to pass up the opportunity to see the Nizhny Novgorod philharmonic orchestra at home, Eve spent a while trying to buy tickets for the evening's performance. Turns out that our money was being refused because they were in a season of free concerts - it just took us about 10 mins of passing the dictionary back and forwards to work this out!
After the concert we headed for the CCCP bar which was ironically dripping in Society memorabilia - Stalin busts, propaganda posters and the like. Life was so good back then, everyone had to be reminded just how good it was.
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