visit Moscow

I have..

- Hotel booked
- Flights booked

I can say ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘Thank You’ and ‘I dont understand’

Will be sorting Visa at the end of the month.

Im so excited :D

Bring on September.

We visited Moscow twice for our son’s adoption. I’d be glad to offer assistance to anyone else planning an extended trip there.

Had the opportunity to go in 2002. Wonderful experience, great people. Something about the place that is intriguing. Was with choir tour and saw more day to day life type stuff than one normally would. Would love to go back some day.

it was a scary place. Definitely worth the trip – an experience of a lifetime – but made me all the happier to live in the United States. The U.S. is by no means perfect, but I feel a heck of a lot safer here.

We took a train from Moscow to Yalta and had to make a run for it and jump onto moving train – with luggage in tow – as Russian Mafia had paid the conductor to leave 15 minutes early in an effort to strong-arm and inconvenience us passengers. Crazy. Seriously, felt like I was in a Cold War movie.

The Bolshoi Circus made me angry and I did not enjoy it at all – the animals were very mistreated during the show (I guess you could say at least they weren’t pretending to treat them well…).

Red Square was beautiful at night. People were somewhat welcoming, but still very guarded toward us. The museums were incredible – and got to wear fun booties over my shoes so as not to scuff up the floors. Had the best McDonald’s apple pie ever in Moscow.

Don’t go in February unless you like to freeze your butt off. Don’t mail anything you can’t live without. Still haven’t received the postcards I sent home in 1996 (yet we received the postcards I sent from Kenya and Zimbabwe in 1995). Hmmm… Definitely an experience to remember.

Nice place to visit, wouldn’t want to live there.

so far i’ve got a couple of hundred euro saved up, and im planning on leaving august 1st. cant wait to get home.

And it was fantastic!!! Highly recommended :-)

It left me an awkward feeling in a negative way, the city that once was so developing and powerful looked a bit..falling into decay. As if it stopped in the developing process and time slowly destroyed it.
But I was pleased to discover Russian ice-cream is still as good as I remembered it, truly brilliant. I don’t really love ice-cream but I ate it almost every day in Moscow. Bolshoj Teatr is also a big plus.
It looked a bit like a bigger version of my hometown years ago, it was strange, at places great, at places even shocking, but definately worth doing.

And very scary, and not super fun, but worth doing. They shut the hot water off for a couple of weeks in the summer, so get used to cold sponge baths. The general public is kinda mean, unless you can afford to go to upper-class hotels and restaurants that are used to tourists. A lot of people speak english in larger restaurants. Even if you think that your russian is pretty good, no one will be able to understand you. Beware of gypsies on the metro. They don’t start partying until like 1 am and go all night. Learn some songs, everyone gets drunk and sings, which is really fun. The food is kick butt, especially the kartoshka stands (potatoes), you can get anything on them. The toilets are different, so don’t eat too much. I lived by the metro stop kulturi park, which was a great area. buy magazines to bring back, they’re neat. You will definately feel like a foreigner.

definately