Day three was pretty quiet. Owing to the perfection of the weather we decided just to head out to one of the parks, accompanied by some chocolate croissants. A sixteenth-century church. One of the few with a tent-style top. Tonight we get on a night train bound for St. Petersburg and points north. We won’t [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Russia Day 2
August 12, 2008 – 3:58 am
We set out under a white sky that drizzled indecisively most of the day. The Russians really value their authors. The gentleman above wrote a thick book on World War II. The horse heads you can barely see in the background are set in the bank of a hill and, when the water is running, [...]
Russia Day 1
August 11, 2008 – 4:35 am
Well, let’s get this photo out of the way right out of the gate: Red Square at twighlight, trying not to look exhausted. We arrived at around 4 AM our time, and stumbled into the puddly, smokey Moscow airport in a daze of excitement and slight trepidation. Apart from a sour young customs lady who [...]
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August 7, 2008 – 8:54 pm
On Saturday Elizabeth and I are headed to Moscow. I am calm about this as long as I don’t look at any Cyrillic. In honor of this, my first trip to a country where I don’t speak the language (i.e. a country that doesn’t speak Ammmerikan), I’ve convinced myself that it is actually a reasonable [...]