Travel Guide

Sochi makes sense only when it is allowed to be two trips at once. The city stretches along the Black Sea, but the mountains stand so close behind it that a good itinerary should move between both. A visitor can walk a seaside promenade, pass[...]

The notes I would give a first-time visitor are not complicated: begin with the wide spaces of Olympic Park before moving back to the sea, keep the route honest, and do not make Adler and the Sochi coast carry more stops than the day can hold.[...]

The useful thing about Teriberka and the Barents Sea as a day from Murmansk is that it does not need to be inflated. Start with the road out of Murmansk toward tundra, open coast and Barents Sea weather, give the route a clean shape, and the[...]

There is a version of Russky Island and the coast beyond Vladivostok that looks efficient on paper and feels thin by lunchtime. The better version starts with the bridge crossing toward Russky Island and the first open coastal views and[...]