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Moscow.....WOW!!
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Me again!
Firstly, thank you to our friends who looked after us in Moscow. Blair and his family very kindly put us up in their lovey apparentment in central Moscow. We met Blair though the WASO China tour and when we were planning our trip we thought it would be great to visit him in Beijing and have a drink for old times sake. Little did we know that by this time Blair and his family had been posted to Moscow. As fate would have it though we were doing the trans-Mongolian rail and Moscow was one of our stops so there was no getting away from us :-). So, for 3 days, Blair, his wife Barbara and his 2 daughters Morven and Pollaidn made us feel very at home. We were treated to home cooked meals, breakast cereals (Simon was quite excited about having real milk!), huge fluffy white bath towels, wine, vodka and the list goes on......basically we were spoilt. To top it all off Blair arranged for our own personal tour guide to take us around the city for whole day and what we didnt see that day aint worth seeing. To write everything in detail here simply wouldnt do it justice but just to list a few we saw St Basil's Cathederal, Red Square, St Josephs, Pushkins Museum of Fine Arts (some of my favourite Impressionist artworks were there- v.exciting), Old Arbat (very famous street in Moscow), the old convent, the 7 Sisters, Gorky Park, Theatre Square....we saw it all. The only thing that we did leave to do another day was the Kremlin as that would take a full day on its own.
What I will say is that Moscow was much more beautiful than we expected. Yellow, green and blue buildings with famous sights at every turn meant that we were constantly in a state of WOW!!! So much history and culture. There was simply no getting away from the grandness of one of the most famous cities in the world.
Time with Blair and his family went by so quickly and after 3 days with them we picked up our packs again...........and went about 3 streets down to our old mate Jane McKinney's place. Yep, we were actually that lucky to have more friends in Moscow. The McKinneys are family friends from Kalgoorlie and actually Jane is now an O'Neill and is married to Dave who is just awesome. I hadnt seen Jane since we were kids but Dave was being transfered to Moscow and before they had even moved over there themselves Jane was offering to put us up, so when Jane opened the door of their apparentment building in Moscow it was the first time we had seen eachother in about 20 years! And the first thing she said was "I've just got off the phone to your mum and she said shes going to wait up until you call her back".......it was very 'family like' and we felt very relaxed at their place for the next few days....so relaxed that we even did 2 loads of washing and Simon was making himself soft boiled eggs and soldiers in the mornings for breakfast ;-)
The next day Jane came with us to explore the Kremlin. Of course we bumped into Mano from Germany (who we bump into in every country!) and we all went in together and had a gawk at all the beautiful churches in there. It was FREEZING cold that day so we should have taken more time to stroll around the grounds but instead we were very keen for Jane to take us to the hot spud van where we had stuffed potatoes with the lot! Just what you need on a cold Moscow day! That night Jane also treated us to a home cooked meal and Simon and I stayed up and watched a really bad movie on TV....just because we could.
On our last day we visited the Kremlin again but this time did the Armory where they keep all the old clothing, national artifacts and treasures and a series of armour and weapons. It was very impressive. That night we had dinner with Jane and Dave at 'Moo Moo', the slightly classier Russian version of sizzler....we mock it but it really was great food. The we headed home and got packed up as we were on the midnight train to St Petersburg. Once again we were very fortunate to have Blair's driver come pick us up and take us to the station which meant we werent wondering Moscow in the middle of the night with our packs.
As you can tell, we couldnt have had a better experience of Moscow....all there is left to say is thank you to Blair, Barbara, Morven, Pollaidn and Jane & Dave for such a great time!!! For anyone else reading this, the photos will do better justice to the sights we saw than any of my descriptions so I'll leave it there :-)
xoxox
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WOW Alright! (reply)
Sep 26, 2007 21:19 EST by chrisnhelen
Hi Guys
Sounds like you're having an absolutely amazing time. Moscow sounds fabulous. We're very jealous!
Thankyou for our postcard too! Yes, we're all settled into our new place now and loving it. The recliners and Foxtel aren't getting nearly enough action yet though as we still have lots to do as always. It's Sasha's 18th birthday this weekend and also Tim and Leanne's ... show all
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