Peter's Blog

The fly agaric or мухомор, beautiful and deadly. As we set off on our journey to Kostroma Oblast in July, I was aware of many people get...

Kostroma Literary Festival, recital , Open mike appearance. Never say never! Here I am on stage reciting from my first Poetry collectio...

July, A blink of an eye! Where did it go? Well to start with my tour of Kostroma Oblast continued and I visited 'Bear Corner'. ...

Manturovo and the toilet police. Strangely as it seemed later, we had stopped at this place on the way to Vokhma and I commented on the ri...

Luptuk? Luptchook? Not sure how to spell it even. Now this is the Outback , the Hinterland, Bear Corner. Cousin Andrey is the local Gamek...

From the first time, I heard the name of this town and since I arrived in Russia, I have wanted to visit this town. If you look on the map...

The title of this blog post is taken from an article I found about the Kostroma Oblast, A very interesting and yet sad article of the K...

I thought I would share a few thoughts about my recent experiences as a language learner. I am extremely proud to say that I have recently...

Life is a strange thing sometimes. I seem to have moved to Russia in order to visit the U.S.A. Never in a million years did I expect to vis...

Судисла́вль On continuing my tour of Kostroma oblast I was invited to visit  Судисла́вль  / Sudislavl with Pavel and his family. We spent...

Буй, Костромская-область, RUS Next on my tour was BUY, no not buy but Booeey. 100 kilometres north of Kostroma. Invited by Olga, I was hea...

Шувалово  Shovalova  Monday 13th May, I continued my tour of Russia and Kostroma Oblast with a visit to  Шувалово I was invited...

бессмертный полк The immortal regiment. Families march through every town and city in Russia holding portraits of their loved ones lost i...