Saturday, September 24, 2005
Beginnings
Its a beautiful sunny Saturday morning - t-shirt weather if you walk quickly enough. I set about doing some chores this morning. Today my metro card works - i do not have to resort to joining the "My metro card doesn't work today" queue where some cross babushka will shout at you and then proceed to spit and stamp on your card until the machine accepts it. After two weeks here i do not know quite whether i like living here - there are good things and bad things but most things are just really odd. I have two favourite metro stops - Tretyakovskaya and Vorobevi Gori. At the first you can get lost very easily but once you've worked it out there is a weird boat staue thing, a rather run don yet picturesque church and of course my favourite internet cafe and the second is a stop in a bridge over the river. Its cool.
The most astounding thing about Moscow is the opposites - beautiful buildings stuck right beside 60s concrete blocks, regimented trees and proper parks, Amazing dining halls with chandalliers and gold everywhere juxtaposed with an ABBA soundtrack blurting out from the speakers!
There are many bad snacks on the roadsides. Dont eat the cheese pies - they're very bad - always stick to greek ones in greece. They do these pretzel shaped things - some are nice. They are sweetbread things that spin round on a machine thing. Most are iced but you get them with nuts and cheese and stuff. If you pick a bad one though you get landed with luminous green/yellow - really unappetizing. There are jam pies - they're alright if you like bad jam. Russian soups are really good(usually) . Chocolate is terrible, i don't care what Russian people say - it really is!
wel only 1 minute left so i'll leave it here, take care - ansd have a nice time Mum and Dad,
Love Hel
The most astounding thing about Moscow is the opposites - beautiful buildings stuck right beside 60s concrete blocks, regimented trees and proper parks, Amazing dining halls with chandalliers and gold everywhere juxtaposed with an ABBA soundtrack blurting out from the speakers!
There are many bad snacks on the roadsides. Dont eat the cheese pies - they're very bad - always stick to greek ones in greece. They do these pretzel shaped things - some are nice. They are sweetbread things that spin round on a machine thing. Most are iced but you get them with nuts and cheese and stuff. If you pick a bad one though you get landed with luminous green/yellow - really unappetizing. There are jam pies - they're alright if you like bad jam. Russian soups are really good(usually) . Chocolate is terrible, i don't care what Russian people say - it really is!
wel only 1 minute left so i'll leave it here, take care - ansd have a nice time Mum and Dad,
Love Hel
# posted by Leon.P @ 1:50 AM 
