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Leaving WAS at 11pm instead of current 7:25pm will get us into Miami around midnight. So even more inconvenient for this part of the trip.

Hello Has there been another quiet fare hike, or did I miss that? Was just looking at booking a ticket to New York and just yesterday, an advance 25% saver fare was $44 for Lancaster to New York - today it is $46. Standard is $61, which is also higher. LNC - PHL on a weekday was $19, now it is...

Yes, I bought a numerous e-tickets via this website and that was in 2016. The key to this was to have a card with 3D Secure option enabled. There were a couple of banks which had this in Poland, and I used a card with 3D Secure option. Not so common in America, not sure about elsewhere to be...

If all you need are train tickets, then I would highly recommend attempting to buy tickets on the Russian Railways website directly - this is the cheapest way to do it. https://pass.rzd.ru/main-pass/public/en There may be an issue with a credit card, but try this first. I used this extensively...

Thank you all for your kind responses!

Hello, I am going to be travelling with a friend on a viewliner roomette. As a sleeper passenger, is it possible to access a public restroom in coach or anywhere else? My friend is not totally frilled with the idea of having to excuse somebody and do their business in the room in the open...

Yes, I think it would. And granted, I really don't speak that much, but I understand more and able to communicate. I think if I didn't speak any Russian, I would have to spend more money. I would not go to the tank museum alone, but I would buy a $80 organized tour. I would probably not get a...

Final train destination is.... Another two hours and here we are, in Warsaw! The Warsaw Central Station main hall also got a bit of rehaul and is now somewhat futuristic as well ;) And at this point I just had to catch a 2.5 hour train to Lublin and the trip would be over. Had a...

Went back to my hotel, took a shower and checked out at 11PM. The train would arrive at 11:36. Here it is on the departures board, number 9, Moscow - Warsaw. This is the expensive Russian sleeper from Warsaw to Moscow. It cost €68 from Minsk to Warsaw. I could have done this route for €10...

I must admit, I did not like Astana very much and felt alienated there. So, Minsk seemed like the capital of Europe and I felt fantastic in there - I felt as if I was home, which I would never have guessed I could feel like that about Belarus! Some pictures from my walk. At 11am I turned...

I spent one night there and just did the same as Omsk - walked about 10-12 miles each day and explored the city. In order to save time, I betrayed the train and cheated my way back - I flew Belarrusian airlines to Minsk. It is a 4 hour flight and it cost $200, which is quite a lot, but it felt...

Astana is a city of contrasts. It had only 250k populatoin before 1998, but it was built up by oil money to be somewhat of a Kazakh Dubai and now has a population of over 700k. Some of the older parts look like this... While newer parts do really look a bit like Dubai.

Again, I was in the 3rd, cheapeast accomodation on my way to the Kazakhstan's new capital, Astana. At this point, I was two hours away from border control, which proved to be a big hassle and a big scare. And i was fully expecting it. So I travelled to Russia and Belarus on a Polish passport...

Having spent the day in Omsk and having braved the rain, I was on my way back to the train station. My train to Astana was departing 6:25 PM Moscow time, which would be 9:25 PM locally. The sun was setting... The Omsk train station in its glory. Why do they choose such ugly colors, though, I...

Omsk can have its ugly, Soviet-style side. And sometimes not seem any different than any other large, Soviet-built city. However, it does have its very unique, old town with very nice views and buildings... As well as churche And ultimately, the river adds to a lot of the charm.

"Products" is just Russia for... well, products. But it also means "convenience store". In Polish (and English, I guess as well ;) ) products just means this. So it was kind of a weird thing to see plastered all over the walls, until I learned what that word also means. Sorry for the deceiving...

On the way to the other side I noticed that a new train arrived. Now the platform was getting crowded! Here is the post office car... Continued walking in the opposite direction on the overhead pass. The train station building is perhaps the most impressive of the buildings in the whole...

Arrived at our stop! No babushkas on the platform, because thie platforms are somewhat small and there are two stores basically trackside.... Those two stores selling PRODUCTS ;) operate on Moscow time, even though local time is two hours ahead. I suppose their only customers are train...

Day 6, July 29 Full day on the train. I woke up at around 8am (don't ask what time!) and there was a gentleman sitting on the bunk opposite the corridor staring at me. I asked if his seat was upstairs and he just nodded. So I got up, rolled up my sheets and folded up the table to create two...

Fantatsic pictures! This all makes me want to go back to RUssia to do the whole trip! Looking forward to your next endeavors!