Archive for August, 2005
Russia – Wednesday – Moscow
We wanted to get going reasonably early (for us) on Wednesday morning – it was our last morning in Moscow and we wanted to go to see Lenin. The mausoleum closed at 1pm and before then, we had to walk through Red Square and around the Kremlin to the cloakroom near Kutafia Tower, then back [...]
Russia – Tuesday – Moscow
Since we didn’t have any breakfast plans, we didn’t rush out of bed at 8am on Tuesday morning. We leisurely woke up about 10am and took an hour or so to get out of the hotel. Our plan for the day was visiting Red Square, GUM and the Kremlin. We walked over the bridge into [...]
Russia – Monday – Moscow
To connect with the flight to Moscow, we had to get the 0605 flight from Leeds Bradford to Amsterdam. Ugh. I am so grateful we only live ten minutes from the airport. There wasn’t much of a queue at check-in (unlike at the adjacent Jet2 counter) and we got through the security-pantomime checks pretty quickly. [...]
Moscow and St Petersburg
I’ve wanted to go to Russia for as long as I can remember – and my reading over the last couple of years (particularly about the Siege of Leningrad and the Gulags) has only increased that desire. Last year, when we were planning the holiday that became Budapest, I contemplated Moscow instead (I didn’t know [...]
Russian visa fandango
John and I are (all being well) off to Russia at the end of this month. We’re staying in Moscow for two nights then taking a sleeper train to St Petersburg, then staying there for another two nights before flying home. I’m a bit of a nervous bunny when organising such things – mostly because [...]
Foundation by Issac Asimov
For almost a year now, I’ve been playing an online game based on the Foundation series by Issac Asimov. It is, strangely enough, called FoundationGame (or FondationJeu in its original French) and can be found here (and here for the French version). I started playing because John introduced me to it. He had read the [...]