Well, it's the morning of my last day in Moscow, 11:30 here and I'm in yet another Internet Cafe. I'm going to go do a little shopping shortly to get last minute things for the train but I'm basically passing the time till 3:15 when I get picked up from my hotel to go catch the first leg of the Trans-Siberian to Irkurtsk.
I've missed a couple of days entries so here's what I've been up to. On Thursday I went to a couple of museams, the Pushkin Museam which contains primarily western art and the Tretyakov Gallery which is made up of russian art. Not the most exciting way to spend a day but I didn't want to do too much as I was trying to give my feet a bit of a rest. I managed to find one of Simon's vegetarian places and had quite a good meal there.
Yesterday was a beautifull day, sunny and warm, it also snowed in the morning covering everything with a nice clean white layer. I went around the Kremlin Armoury collection, which houses the Tsars treasures, including coaches, gowns, thrones and all sorts of amazing things. Later I went out to the New Maiden Convent, though I didn't go into any of the churches there it was nice to just walk around the ground for a while in the sun. I went looking for the Pantheon of Fallen Heroes in the evening, a park filled with old soviet-era statues. I'm not quite sure if I found it since the statues in the park I found didn't look especially soviet but it was quite a nice place to sit and had some lovely deep undisturbed snow. I also found a couple of the places my guide showed me again in the afternoon, including the English bookstore where I bought a couple of books to read while I'm travelling.
Posted by Haifisch at March 15, 2003 08:38 AM