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Here you’ll find a collection of impressions of travelling around Kaliningrad and the North East of Poland. I’m updating any posts that appeared earlier to keep the information current. The former East Prussia is a rather unique corner of Europe, with some very picturesque castles, waterways and architecture [...] The excellent ‘In Your Pocket’ guide wrote of Svetlogorsk: ‘The whole experience is still decidedly Russian. Savour it before it becomes another generic seaside resort.’ This was written before the Schengen curtain went up around Kaliningrad. These days, Svetlogorsk is in scant danger of euro-isation. The main visitors are Moscow property developers and day trippers from [...] And where there aren’t pines, silver birch fill any leaf space left. Svetlogorsk – Kaliningrad’s Baltic beach – is a heavily wooded resort where only shafts of light make it through. Chances of a deep tan are slim and the only really bronzed resident I’ve come across is Pavlov. In sculpted form, of course. When officials issue an official denial, you know for sure the opposite is true. A while back, when the news leaked out about Putin’s new retirement home in Pionerski, Kaliningrad Oblast, The Moscow Times duly reported: “We have no information on this matter,” Kremlin press secretary Viktor Khrekov said. “I would not exclude the possibility that this [...] A freak cooking accident – probably too much red wine in the bourguinon – resulted in a few cracked ribs. But what better place to recuperate than on the Soviet Riviera! To absolutely, positively, ensure recovery, I checked-in to all three of the former East Prussian sanatoria above Kaliningrad: Svetlogorsk (formerly Rauschen), Zelenogradsk, (formerly Crantz) and [...] |
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