Siberia's holy water
Stephen Phelan takes the plunge in Lake Baikal — so deep, so mysterious and so very cold.
Tales of the unexpected
Brian Johnston looks beyond the imperial grandeur of St Petersburg to the everyday life celebrated by the great Russian novelist Dostoevsky.
Came so far for beauty
So much art. So much backache. Lissa Christopher tours the behemoth State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Keys to the cities
A Bordeaux bolthole for $120 a night? A riverside retreat in Lisbon for the same? Here's our guide to some of Europe's best-value hotels and guesthouses this season.
Wildlife and wild weather
Louise Schwartzkoff paddles with otters and cruises beneath volcanoes on a dramatic expedition in the Kuril Islands.
Railway trips to dine for
Ah, the romance of long-distance train travel ... Ute Junker shares her experiences of carriages and cabbages.
Tripologist: Venice in the off season
I am travelling to Kent in England next month to visit my daughter and family.
Please direct me to the pectopah
Russia is a place it's impossible to get a grip on.
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The largest country in the world has a lot to offer the intrepid traveller. Start with the unparalleled candy coloured spires of Moscow and the surrounding Red Square. Diverse landscapes, strange old resort towns and the most desolate place on earth, Siberia, beg to be explored. Don't miss sweating it out in a public banya (steam bath), sailing across Lake Baikal, or a trip to the ballet.
