Cosmos Moscow

... 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 a food ...

... 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 high- ...

... 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 managed ...

... . When Belle arrived we headed off to find a toilet. Belle paid 15 roubles for some toilet paper and a sightseeing tour of a Moscow public toilet, apparently there was just something to squat over and Belle was not about to give it a try. It was now ...

... evening that made up for the initial disappointment of finding out that our seats were not exactly what we had thought we had paid for. After a long day of tramping the streets of Moscow we dragged our feet back to the Cosmos for a good nights rest.