Moscow has been interesting. Thought it is winter here and normally very cold, it hasn't been too terrible these few days. Each day has been mostly overcast, however, with spurts of rain that aren't quite freezing. There's lots of mud in Moscow right now--I'm kind of struck by how much dirt and mud there is. I think it's dirtier than New York, though not in a garbage/litter/sewage way--I have yet to see any big piles of garbage in the street. The dirtiness of Moscow is about dirt--earth and since it's been wet, mud. It's more or less understood here to take off one's shoes when entering someone's apartment and it seems clear this is not some asian/Japa
nese custom, but rather just a practical matter so that mud isn't tracked all over.Someone in the upstairs apartment is playing piano right now. While entering one of the underground metro stations the other day there were about a dozen people standing in a line each playing a stringed instrument and together they delivered a piece of classical music I recognized. You have a sense that the people here know and understand their culture and history.
I'll have to add more commentary on Moscow later, it's nearly time for us to leave for the airport.
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Love the picture choice, very moving. I am enjoying your blogs but you haven't mentioned the most important part. Man how's the food?
Stay safe. Me : )
The food in Moscow was decent. I had quite a bit of cabbage--like cabbage salads (red cabbage with vinegar or a kind of cole slaw). Fried potatoes are big--I had them once in a place and they were so greasy I got a bit nauseous. I had borsht(sp?) for the first time and it was good--beets and beef soup. Dill popped up in unexpected and welcome places...But definately my most memorable meal was at a Georgian restaurant my last night in Moscow. Really excellent cheesy bread stuff which we ate with some eggplant/tomato/carrot salsa-type stuff. Also this stuff that was somewhere between refried beans and indian curry. Then finally stuffed myself with lamb. Georgian food--at least the stuff we got, was worth going first to two Georgian places that were closed or didn't have what we were looking for...
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