Another Night - Another Monastery - Hope this doesn't become a habit! My bed in Rostov Veliky was in a monastery too Lake Nero looked inviting but... After a hot and sweaty bus ride, it was a long walk to the Kremlin. A young girl called Katya helped carry my bags and walked me all the way. I was really grateful because by now both my foot and my back were hurting. I was glad that I had sent my boots and winter clothes back to Australia! I mentioned to Katya that I was looking forward to having a swim in shimmering Lake Nero. "I wouldn't," she said. "It's much too polluted!" Rostov Veliky was even older than Suzdal having been first chronicled in 862 ( Lonely Planet , 2006: 217). The guest house in the old monastery here proved friendly and didn’t charge the earth and so it was a great place to rest.Though many of its churches were in the process of renovation and plaster was crumbling here and there, there was plenty of evidence of Rostov's p...
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