En route to a wedding in Astrakhan,writer Thom Wheeler traced the length of the 2200-mile Volga river, by foot, or boat,bus and trainThe Volga river slices through the heartland of Russia and covers a diverse set of cultures. You could probably travel its length in a week whether you jumped on trains.
I took two months doing it, partly for romantic reasons. My childhood friend Vicky was marrying another friend of mine, and Dimitri (whom I met while working in St Petersburg),in Astrakhan, at the end of the river, or close to the delta. They met when she came on a trip I was running to St Petersburg.
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Source: theguardian.com