Moscow Condos - Reviews and Rates

For those expecting lots of photos of Red Square, the Kremlin and all the other Moscow sights...you might be a bit disappointed. This is however my travel blog and not yours...so get over it. I did take a few photos of some of the sights, but as this was my 3rd visit to Moscow I didn't feel the urge or need to go running around the city in a rus...

Today was another tourist day, but since the standard places were done, I more or less wandered a bit. I decided to go to the Cosmonaut Memorial Musuem which was awesome. Lots of recreations of all types of space vehicles, old letters, awards, etc. I took a bunch of pictures to try to translate later what I saw. Either way, it was by far more in...

We arrived early in the morining in Moscow by train. We then transferred to subway and walked at 20 minutes to our hotel which was an army hotel run by the military. This place is used for military people who are traveling for work and some use it when on leave. Extra rooms are available for civilians and foreigners. The place was understandibly...

The apartment isn't all that bad. My family works really late and so I don't see them very often. I get the sense that scientists and engineers don't make nearly as much money here as they do in America, relatively speaking. A friend of mine told her host mother that her family in America has two cars and lives out in the country and the host mo...

One of the biggest worries before coming here was not about understanding Russian- it was definitely about whether I would get to watch the Super Bowl or not. Being in Ireland 3 years ago for the Super Bowl, I started watching the game at a bar but they kicked out all the Americans when the bar closed at 2am... which happened to be at the beginn...

I really didn't have enough time here. Given the restrictions on my visa (I was only allowed one month in Russia) and the slight inconvenience of the timing of the trains, it worked out that I could only really spend 5 days here; far less than a capital of this size deserves. It didn't help that both Mike (from St Petersburg) and the vodka made ...