i have booked a flight arriving in Moscow on Monday June 18 and plan to stay for 8-9 nights (looking to leave on June 26 or 27). I will book my flights out of Russia after the December 1 draw.  

I will be there, waiting on the draw. 

Would be my third trip to Russia, very keen, going to the Confederations Cup next month :) Lovely country from my experience.

this needs a bump considering the world cup is 13 months away.

so who's going and what are peoples plans?

I was originally considering the the GGA tour, but now that i have persuaded the missus to come with me, I'll probably avoid the expense of an organised tour and base myself in Moscow.   

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Good thing we can fly to the next World Cup when Russia will be shooting down the planes and invading other countries!

-PB

I'm hoping to go to Russia 2018, lovely country and Palad will hold my hand.

Sending this over free wifi at a KFC in Moscow.

:lol:

Poland to win. :)

nor the French

One things certain, if the finals in Moscow history suggests the Germans wont make it:) .

Doesnt the trans siberian go from Moscow to Vladivostok?

Russia will never be westernised

They do however like to exploit lonely and vulnerable people in western countries, with its assortment of "affectonate" girls that are waiting to "hear back from you to marry them"


It would be a hell of a world cup match if Nigeria also qualify and russia and nigeria play a match

The land of the 419 scammers vs the land of the russian brides :lol:

no problems in Sochi after all the scare tactics
the only thing you'll need to worry about is islamist terrorists

I remember a time when this forum had mods.

I welcome the imminent destruction of the Donetsk-Black hundred-Putinist regime. On to Crimea!

typical of average hick morons to support militant islamists launching rockets whilst turning a blind eye to civilised christians being slaughtered by a puppet regime

they're just too dopey to work it out

perhaps they should join the army and experience it first hand

Meh let em die. If they don't like it they should move somewhere else.

-PB

they're the lucky ones
meanwhile the Kiev puppet regime is carrying out systematic ethnic cleansing in Eastern Ukraine

Free Crimea etc.

Well I lived in Moscow for two years, is that outback Queensland? I'm posting this from St. Petersburg right now.

Vintage.

Obsessed!

EDIT: Ironic that you don't know where the fucking outback is :lol:

-PB

Edited by paulbagzFC: 14/7/2014 09:51:00 PM

lol at these people with no idea. it comes with living in hick towns in outback queensland i guess.

Russia will be fine

Edited by ricecrackers: 14/7/2014 09:42:54 PM

Not particularly keen on Russia as Putin is so fucking unpredictable with his shit(apart from that I've wanted to go to Moscow and St Petersburg all my life). That all said, I want to go to the world cup I'm sure as shit not going to Qatar though and it's pretty cheap to get there from Europe where i'll be living again by then so i'll be in for that. Probably get Scandinavia and the Baltics in as well on the way.

Brazil hands over WC to Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHGjBdwVbHc

:lol:

In terms of football culture and infrastructure absolutely Russia can put on a great world cup, but as PB says hopefully Putin hasn't started Modern Warfare 2 by then. Maybe he'll be out of office, who knows.

Just buy the tickets direct from the Russian Railways website: ticket.rzd.ru. Much cheaper. I can talk you through that if you want.

I'm in St. Petersburg right now actually, come here once a year, and I catch trains here all the time. I strongly suggest you take a 3rd class platzkart carriage instead of a 2nd class kupe ticketthat you're looking at. Platzkart is open throughout the carriage in groups of six, so it's safer than a 2nd class compartment of four behind a closed door where you don't know who you'll get, and there's always someone who wants to show off their basic English!

I'll actually be catching one tuesday on my way to Moscow, finally time to fly back to Straya just in time for Victory's preseason!

Any more questions, fire away.

I can't remember the time between trains, think something like 6 days for the trans mongolian and probably ever 3 or say day for the Siberia. I was in Ulaanbaatar during the Naadam festival, kinda like the mongolian olympics. Can't remember the prices sorry. But i would recommend some form of tour. The bejing station is a total mess, the tour group payed people off so the bus could bypass the traffic and get onto the station platform. get there ridiculously early for your train, it can leave at random times and like stops for like 20 minutes for you to get on. Stopped at irkutsk visit lake baikal, also a pretty cool party town as it got a couple of universities. You will have to wait at Ulan-ude if you use the trans mongolian to link up with the siberian. It has got the worst toilet on the planet and you are stuck there for about for 4-5 hours.

its worth doing, you see some different parts of the wall, the gobi desert. mongolia is awesome, people are really nice. its such an odd country, that is the people are nomadic and find it odd living in the same place all the time. Also it will be 25-30 degree in summer. Which is hard to get your head around when your in siberia.

Let's see if Putin has waged war on the rest of Europe by then :lol:

-PB