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Not necessarily.

In Vladimir, most tourists visit during the day for a few hours and move on.

Even independent ones usually spend the first part of the day in Vladimir and then take the bus to...

Well - you're certainly learning, David!

Lots of good and accurate observations there.

I'm old enough to remember what life was like decades ago and that's kinda the way it is in Russia.
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Strav, I think you'd love it out there.

There's an old Russian saying that goes something like - "to know a country you have to disappear into it".

It's not just the guys in this forum who...

Absolutely nothing, if you don't mind living in a city of half a million people where every street looks like this (with apologies to Barba!) -

But y'know, actually, it's not really too bad.
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Oh god, please don't take me back to Ivanovo - once was enough!

But don't worry about taking a 'slow train' - there is no other kind...

Actually, just thinking about it, I don't think it can...

Hi Strav,

You'd like Yaroslavl, I'm sure, as it's quite a cosmopolitan and pleasant place by the standards of provincial Russia.

However, I'm not too sure about those stats, as given by EG.
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