Cosmos Moscow

... not have been easier. Our driver was waiting for us, we walked to the car which was a big black Hyundai operated by 'Moscow Taxi's', the driver was dressed in a black suit with white socks and brown shoes, Nice !, his hair was slicked back, he ...

... 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 ...

... been first ever plane spotters at Domodedovo Airport, in a previous life 25 yrs ago I would have killed to have been there. The flight from Moscow to Zurich lasted about 3 hours, I had a window seat, Nay had a Russian guy next to her, he was about 35 and ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... in the world to live in, is home to 9 million official residents and probably 3 million illegals and others. Housing in Moscow is incredibly expensive. $3,000 will get you one square meter of a basic shell--four unfinished walls and floors in a ...

... 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 ...

... & 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 ...

Landed in Dubai for at about 6:30am local time for a three hour stopover - flight to Moscow scheduled to depart at 9:30am. Various people had told us about how great Dubai airport is, sorry to disagree but I am now dreading the 10 hour stopover I have ...

... , metro rides to see decorative stations - marble & mosaics. Birthday cake for Leigh & Gail 4th - Economic Achievements Park - Cosmos Pavillion closed but saw other pavillions & gardens Shopped at hard currency shop - Russian dolls & wooden ...

No eggs today, we got up late 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 ...

... Russia is a strong one. Many Abkhazians have been afforded Russian passports, and Russian is their lingua-franca. Suddenly Moscow doesn’t seem like a bad place for a union between differing cultures.    Unlike Russian weddings, raucous ...

... 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!        ...

... given that Sokolniki is also the name of the suburb. Apparently the Park was one of the first ones built in post revolution Moscow, there is a marble plaque commemorating something or other that Lenin did in 1918. We pointed at something in the window of ...