Jan 5. State power day. Woo! Filled with a late breakfast (usually the broiled potatoes Ryan had made, long-overdue Honey Nut Cheerios with milk and OJ–simple delights I hadn’t had in months), I arrived at Kremlin walls just after 12 noon, where the line to see Lenin’s Mausoleum (free) was being told that they probably [...]
Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
Moscow: Dictators, authors & theatre critics (Jan 5-7)
Posted: January 17, 2010 in Russia, Winter TravelTags: big bell, big cannon, Bulgakov, departure, fooling the Kremlin, Gogol, holiday, house museum, Inspector General, Kremlin, Lenin, Moscow, museum, Novodevichy Cemetery, Russian Christmas, theatre, Tolstoy, waxy figures, WiFi
0
Moscow: 10 million plus one in 2010 (Jan 1-4)
Posted: January 16, 2010 in Russia, Winter TravelTags: bad omens, Brad Pitt in Russian, Catholic church shopping, Church of Christ the Savior, food, friends, garish monuments, Georgian food, House on the Embankment, Izmailovskii market, Mondays, Moscow, museum, Peter the Great, phones, police, Russian champagne, shopping, Silent Night, Tretyakov, Tsereteli
Moskva. Bottom line: my feet hurt. Yes, great metro and bus system, but stepping out of every metro station and glancing around would hardly give a traveller the right idea of the city. Thus, walking can’t be done without, and so, walk I did. Jan 1. And the decade begins. Streets quiet (except for the [...]
