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March 16, 2010
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Snow flurries. There is a 10% chance of precipitation. Mostly cloudy. Cold. Temperature of 21.09°F. Winds WNW 8.34mph. Humidity will be 61% with a dewpoint of 10° and feels-like temperature of 11.3°F.
Hi: 21° F, Low: 13° F.
Snow flurries. There is a 20% chance of precipitation. Partly cloudy. Cold. Temperature of 19.54°F. Winds NW 7.02mph. Humidity will be 54% with a dewpoint of 6° and feels-like temperature of 10.47°F.
Hi: 20° F, Low: 7° F.
I visited Moscow in June, during the magnificent spring time when the flowers are blooming and the color of nature matches the glitzy domes and mosaic-like architecture all around you. No slipping on ice or bundling up in a parka for this girl! Throw away your preconceptions of old Russia and of life amongst piles of snow. Moscow represents the new and improved, open to all Russia. I was pleasantly delighted to find beer drinking at the Hermitage gardens and world class restaurants at your disposal. The city is full of life and brilliant historical monuments and museums. The only Russian word I ever learned was nyet and somehow I was able to navigate through this foreign land and survive. There is definitely something for everyone here, from the slightly creepy Lenin’s tomb walkthrough to the historic Red Square, or perhaps a visit to the Moscow zoo (kids like this)! The one bizarre aspect I distinctly remember encountering because I love photography, is that you have to pay to take pictures in certain museums. I thought you couldn’t take flashy pictures because it ruined the art?
On Russian TV, a TV personality played a practical joke on the inhabitants of Moscow. He went around with a map and asked locals to explain how to get to a certain destination on the map. Everyone responded with their own versions, making different lefts, rights, circles etc. The joke however, was that the map he was showing the locals was a map of Paris. We had a map of Moscow and ended up walking around for about 3 hours, completely lost. We had our own walking tour I suppose. We ended up at the famous Soviet Playground, the final resting place near Gorky Park for all the Soviet era statues. A goose-bump inspiring place for Soviet History buffs. With statues of Lenin and famous KGB officers looking up at the gray sky, things seem a little spooky. Not to mention the busts and larger than life statues of Stalin that still bear the scars from being pulled down from their pedestals. Long story short, getting lost in a city can be a fun adventure, just make sure you are lost on your own accord and not because a local told you to make a left.
Vladimir sat across from us at the table, Luda was cooking in the corner. We could smell the pelmeni and beets. He poured us each a shot. "This one, we drink to our health," he said. He poured another shot. "This one, we drink for love." He poured another shot. "And this one, we drink for each other." The thermometer on the window read -10 Celsius. It was the middle of January in Moscow and I was sitting in a small kitchen with a Russian man drinking shots. Outside, the sun had set hours ago and the cold crunching of the snow beneath people boots was audible from the balcony. People looked like small bears, wrapped in fur, trudging through snow fields, heads down. That day we had followed Bulgakov’s famous book Master and Margarita around Moscow, an adventurous day for book nerds I suppose. We started in Patriarchs pond, where the Devil first appeared and ended up in Red Square. "Beryl! Come have another!" I came back in from the balcony and sat down. “You toast this time,” Vladimir said.
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