So yes, I seem to have skipped right over summer, during which I had managed to pop by London (and Windsor), Paris (first time in 13 years!), Brussels and the Alsace region of France. But most of my free time was spent hopping across the beautiful countryside around Moscow. Please enjoy my IG illustration of those weekend getaways, along with…
Perhaps a couple of you have noticed that I haven’t blogged much for the last, six months, but I haven’t fully disappeared into the abyss — just fallen through a wormhole and now trying to climb out. In the meantime, here are some good reads that have kept me tethered to the world of travel (oh,…
Another month has come to a close, and I am still working on getting my mojo back. However, there are some flashes of light at the end of the tunnel: I barely plugged into work over winter break, January was properly snowy and frosty, I went skiing!!!!!, which was a bit of a clumsy fiasco, and…
So, this didn’t go according to plan. My very ambitious blogging, photo-taking, walking-around-Moscow and other creative plans for the last few months of 2015 totally went out of the window — and then some. In a totally unexpected turn of events, my job was to blame. And even though the BIG THING that had me…
Every day I come across awesome reads from fellow expats, travel bloggers, news magazines and other great sources and think, “so-and-so would love that!” Sometimes I might forward the articles privately, but most of the time they disappear into the abyss of my memory and the Internet. Well, no more! In this new feature, which is a…
Moscow City is a ghost town on weekends. It also might very well be a ghost town on weekdays too – this skyscraper city known officially as the Moscow International Business Center has entered its third decade of development, and although a number of businesses have already moved in, the complex still has a “work…
My seasonal depression begins during the Summer Solstice. For most Western people June 21st marks the beginning of summer, but for me it is the end; in fact, it’s the official first day of “Winter Is Coming.” * * * Living in Moscow means you can’t just assume that you will get all the trappings…
Nothing compares to the beauty of Russian countryside, with its white birch groves, tall red pines, rainbow-colored flower meadows and sparkle of the Golden Autumn. No wonder, then, that odes to Russian Nature have been sung by many a writer, poet and artist. And nothing encapsulates the classic Russian countryside quite like the Oka River…
If you are ever in Russia, for however long, for whatever reason and in whichever corner of the country, you must do anything and everything you can to experience a Russian barbecue. A Russian barbecue is not your average cookout. It is a microcosm of Russia as a concept, where food, nature, and ages-old traditions…
Where you can try traditional North Korean cuisine outside of North Korea? Now, how many of those places are in the “Western World”? Well, one of them happens to be in Moscow. Koryo (or Pyongyang Koryo), opened in 2010 and is Russia’s one and only North Korean restaurant. It is rumored to be officially sanctioned…
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