Moscow, Russia
August 7, 2015
So I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect of Moscow. Since we are moving every few days… we do not always have time to research our destination ahead of time.1 But I think that generally speaking my expectation was for drab, concrete, Soviet-era buildings. Like these:
And of course I expected to see Candy Land St. Basil’s Cathedral 2 located in Red Square:
But I thought maybe that would be it.3 So I had very low expectations for the visual-tourist walking around that we like to do so much.
However. Was I ever неправильно ! 4
This is a gorgeous city! We’ve had sooo much fun walking around and checking out the beautiful architecture.5 Great little gems like this:
вау (wow !)
… and this:
хороший (nice !)
…and this:
прекрасный (beautiful !)
…and this:
безусловно, не скучно Советский (Certainly not Soviet-boring !)
… and this:
Ну не то, что просто прелесть (well isn’t that just lovely !)
and this:
Потрясающие города (stunning city !)
…and lastly this one:
Кто нуждается в Париж (who needs Paris ?) (Qui a besoin de Paris ?)
Even the subways were amazingly ornate and grand:67
So as we were walking around, after the first six hours or so Lauren agreed that the city reminded us more of Paris than of any cold, concrete, Soviet-era stereotype that we had in mind.
Very impressed.
Mosc-wow, Russia.
Mosc-wow.8
Thanks for reading,
Christopher
Understatement. Often it’s on the train/bus ride into the city from the airport. ↩
…which is officially called Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat. Apparently by no one for good reason… ↩
#BadTourist ↩
wrong ↩
I am not responsible for any google translate errors on the captions that follow, k? ↩
More on this when RedheadRoamer.com gets that post up.↩
Oh. And here’s looking at you, CTA… ↩
Sorry Mr. Budny, the country/city name-puns shall continue until morale improves! ↩
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Beautiful! Love these pictures Enjoy!
If the puns must continue, then Soviet. Putin the work, stop Stalin, and find some more. Winter is coming, hope you don’t get Snowden.
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Nice. Ural really funny guy; that comment was the creme de la Kremlin. But… this means cold war! Ivan thinking of a few replies, but there is a caviar-t to this and I don’t want my reply to be Sochi-zy. And this could go on forever… so tsar you sure you want to do this, Dan?
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P.S. – work a Dostoevsky pun in there and you automatically win
I’ll be Praguematic (sorry, its not Russia, but the Czechs are Slavs) and yield the floor
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Well. The “the Soviet” comment was awesome. had never heard that one before. well done.