The Countryside
...proceed to www.russian-horse-rides.com or www.staritsa.info
For the moment I can offer several pictures to illustrate teh vastness and dissolation of this land. There will be another series to convey just the opposite sense to keep you perpetually confused till you decide to come here yourself, which I hope you'll do with our assistance (I'm writing this during a post-Christmas lull in business).
Our guest Patrick was expecting a car ride around Staritsa, an ancient city
in Tver region between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Temperatures of minus 35 centigrade made
my old Renault, and poor Patrick had to learn horseriding in a rush.
The river you see is Volga 200 miles from its source.

