Cosmos Hotel Moscow

... white socks and brown shoes, Nice !, his hair was slicked back, he didn't speak other than to confirm the name of our Hotel "Cosmos", it took us just over an hour to there, he drove like a getaway driver undertaking, overtaking, switching lanes at the ...

... are not well organized!! We are instructed to find our tour guide, Galina, by her pink umbrella. The hotel we are staying in is called The Cosmos and has a space theme since it is located in the area devoted to Russian space achievements. The hotel is ...

... I ate it mainly because I was starving hungry. Safe to say we will not be heading back, we paid the bill 2000 Roubles or £40 and left. Red Square was now lit up GUM was covered in fairy lights, it had been a long day and we headed back to the ...

... signs on the walls to let one know which station the train has stopped at. SO basically it’s more advisable when coming to Moscow to learn Russian first. Additionally not many people speak English it seems. Jean had 2 t shirts & thin jacket on, ...

... By the time we’d seen the house & were on our way to the metro it was 9pm on our final night in Moscow & I needed the loo desperately following the large beer I had earlier. Fortunately trains here come every minute or so as I didn’t ...

... his death in 1924 except for a period during the Second World War when it was evacuated to Siberia when it appeared Moscow might fall to invading Nazi troops. We walked out of the mausoleum and walked past the graves of previous Russian leaders, ...

... & cake, this was a bit cheaper than yesterday’s Bosca Café which Tatiana informed us is the most expensive café in Moscow. Over coffee Tatiana gave us a potted history of Russia From there we wandered down Arabat Street, which in the 18th ...

... Mira then onto the Circle Line, we noticed that the first station was Komsomolskaya which is one of the most famous on the Moscow Metro and one of the most ornate stations, they weren't wrong, we jumped off and Nay managed to snap a couple of ...

... and nearly missed breakfast, the old Russians were pretty strict with timings and breakfast closed at 10am on the dot. We left the hotel at just gone 11am we were walking to the exhibition centre which we could see over an 8 lane highway from our room, ...

... , magazines, ... Out the otherside of the underpass I passed several food vans and the found the path up to the hotel. The Cosmos is a very large semicircular building with a long ramp leading up to it, which was snow covered and quite slippery. I ...

... a picture & ended up with a lovely bunch of flowers from a little old lady who lived there Arrived Moscow at lunchtime - Metropol Hotel Bought champagne at a supermarket - Leigh & Gail's birthday celebrations Red Square - St Basil's, Lenin's ...

... in his coffin if he were not currently covered in lacquer.  Please, please, if you find yourself on the outskirts of Moscow, perhaps staying in the Hotel Cosmos, avoid this place like the Plague!        ...

... disappointing - many of the Russians were in the trade display singing Russian folk songs and many of the other delegates had headed off to the theatre for the evening. Back to Hotel Cosmos to put our feet up and feast on some Russian pizza for ...

... what the Russian version of the menu was like.  And yes, a Big Mac tastes the same in Moscow as it does in Dalian as it does probably in Timbuktu: absolutely delicious!  Our visit to Moscow was now officially complete. ...

... songs all with some relation to horses. One song described he life of a Muscovite who used to drive a horse drawn tram in  Moscow. With the establishment of the Metro in the 1930's, the horse drawn trams died out and the former tram driver now had ...