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Taking a Train from Moscow City to Yaroslavky

walking to the wagon We chose deliberately in the winter to travel from Moscow to Yaroslavsky. In my defense, we kinda had to use the holiday a little bit. If we're waiting for the good weather, it probably not gonna happen for 3 months and then nothing again. So this trip was taken on February 2026. So we've decided to take a few days off going from Moscow to half of the golden ring. The name ring, means literally ring. Refers to a few cities that used to be very important in the past. Starting from Moscow city (where which we're coming from, technically). I have to mention the cities here anyway; Sergiyev Posad, Pereslavl Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Vladimir, and Suzdal. there will be info about the train  We took the train trip from Moscow. I would say it's the "normal type" of train. So we sat next to each other. Two seaters next to each other. I think my husband took the non-economy one. He booked the train from the app, tutu. T...

Gamarjoba Tbilisi

Karena fotonya masih ada di mamer, jadi skip dulu soal bahasan Ayasofya yang keren itu


Menjejakkan kaki di Georgia tidak pernah kubayangkan sebelumnya. Beruntung sekali paspor hijau ini bisa mendapatkan e-visa dengan mudah untuk menjejakkan kaki di Georgia. Apply evisa untuk Georgia membutuhkan waktu 5 hari pas, via online dengan tarif usd 20,7. Thanks to bestie who always help me on credit card needed -I dont have CC btw-

9 hari di Istanbul, kita memutuskan untuk terbang menuju Georgia, yang mana katanya si partner itu kotanya bagus banget, dan nggak touristy macem Istanbul. Terakhir kali partner ke Tbilisi sekitar 3 tahun lalu dan ternyata banyak perubahan selama itu. Tapi rada kaget ternyata sekarang banyak yang kesini. Tulisan ini ditulis ketika menanti jam untuk terbang balik ke Istanbul sore ini. Tapi baru tayang beberapa minggu setelah sampai di rumah.


Nggak banyak orang tau tentang Georgia. Negara pecahan Uni Soviet ini mengklaim dirinya sebagai the origin country of wine. Ya banyak wine berserakan disudut kota. Mulai dari wine murahan sampai yang paling mahal sekalipun. Sekitar tahun kelairanku -harus ya sebut gitu-, oke to the point aja, taun 1991, negara ini lepas dari Soviet. Yang tua2 mah masih ngomong Rusia. Dan ini sebelnya, gak banyak dari mereka ngomong bahasa Inggris. Suami gw mah bisa bahasa rusia, gw geleng-geleng doang.

Secara umum sih, disini ini tempatnya ortodok kristen. Gereja banyaknya kek musola di Indonesia yang dempet-dempet jarak 100 meter udah nemu tempat ibadah. Jadi ga usah kaget kalo disini nemu orang ibadah digereja dengan penutup kepala yg sering kita tafsirkan sebagai jilbab di Indonesia. Plis jangan bilang 'hati2 ada aliran agama baru yg meniru islam dan beribadah di gereja' plis no ya! Gak usah baper!

Plus-nya, kita suka suasana kotanya. Asik deh pkoknya. Nggak begitu rame juga, dibanding Istanbul (meskipun udah masuk kategori rame sih kalo versi suami). Aromanya aroma Eropa kalo kata partner. Wis pokoke asik deh.

Gak asiknya, most spoken language is Russian. Itu suck banget! Kemaren aja kita ke Kazbegi bareng 2 orang Rusia, dan mereka gak ngomong bahasa Inggris sama sekali. Semacem anti gitu. Mereka bertiga ngobrol asik, gw ngobrol dalem hati aja sambil mikir kapan sih gw bisa ketemu orang yang bisa diajak ngobrol pake bahasa internasional ya tuhan!!


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