Went to Moscow...

[maadmike]

to participate the celebration of 870 anniversary of the city

Comments

[gonzo21]

I had no idea they had so many fountains. They must have to drain them before the winter arrives.

Many of the buildings here in Scotland have that rough texture, because a lot of them are built from rough stone.

[maadmike]

Yes of course the fountains are drained at late autumn or it will be the damage to the basins and to all the mechanisms, so it is the last weeks to see they are working before the freezing temperetures are coming to our lands.

We do not have many buildings from stones at Moscow - many of them are from concrete, at Saint Petersburg it is the other matter and there are many old buildings there even from granite.

[gonzo21]

Moscow was a city that traditionally used mostly wood wasn't it?

Which is why it burnt so readily during the Napoleonic invasion.

[maadmike]

Yes, through the hundreds of years it was so but now it is not actual to use wood at big modern city though there are cities at Siberia where there are streets full of apartment buildings made from wood.

[topum]

Beautiful wife, cool kids and what looks to me like a really happening city. I want to visit Moscow more than any city, it is number one on my list. And I am not visiting it exactly for that reason, it now has to be at the right time and the right way ). Many of our volunteers visited Moscow while staying with us here and they told me that I am the kind of guy who would like Moscow a lot. I am told it is a city that never sleeps (unlike most Western European capitals), is always moving and changing and of course it is the largest city in Europe. Our Russian volunteers here seem to be very excited about some new park that has just been opened to public somewhere not far from the Kremlin. They told us that it is the first properly planned and executed modern public space in Moscow (it was designed by the US firm that designed the famous High Line Park in Ne York apparently).

[maadmike]

"Beautiful wife, cool kids and what looks to me like a really happening city."

Thank you! Moscow is very hospitable for tourists now and it is cheap as never if it can bother you anyway, it has many interesting historical and modern things to share and I am certain you have to visit it someday.

"Our Russian volunteers here seem to be very excited about some new park that has just been opened to public somewhere not far from the Kremlin."

Never heard of and I'll look what it is all about at Internet.

[topum]

This is the link they gave me: https://varlamov.ru/2551352.html
I did not Google translate the text and just looked at the photos. The views of and from the park seem to be very impressive indeed.

[maadmike]

Well, I'd read the info... what can I say - if I'd heard about this project twenty years ago I was certain that it is a new money laundry but looking as Moscow is turning now to the better state - more comfortable for people I can say that, yeah it should be great to have such place at center.
If somebody asked me what I want to see at Moscow it would be something pleasurable for people to rest and spend time and extra modern - having the maximum of all the new technologies - machineries, computers, cinema, hotels, restaurants and so on with minimum of taxes and maximum of private initiative of people but not without the control of course.

But anyway I looking forward to visit this new park in Moscow - "Zaryadie" and I would be glad to like it and spend a lot of time in it with friends and family.

[meowmensteen]

I like the posed picture of your wife in front of some water and buildings. That could be framed and put up on a wall.

[maadmike]

I am glad you like it - my wife likes it too and she wants to put it on her facebook ;) though if ten percent of passable photos I make put on the wall we will have no place very soon. ;)