First Impressions of Planet Moskva

Thursday (04/09/08)

First dinner in the Novoslobodskaia flat (Philip, Jana, Chloe, Gaby)

Friday (05/09/08)

Belorusskaia vokzal - train and metro station. Blistering heat.

Sovetskoe Shampanskoe - the cheapest drink in the house

Metro carriage

...what you get at 1am on the metro

On Moscow metro (Jana, Gaby)

Saturday (06/09/08) - День Города Москвы (Moscow day)

Maiakovskaia Ploshchad'

Ordering blini in Eliseevskii magazin, Tverskaia

Preparing the stage for Den' Moskvy

Subtly-attired approaching Red Square

A rare opportunity to walk along Tverskaia ul. on Moscow day

A friend and I often come up with strange fantasies. In a recent bout of "what am I doing with my life? What does my degree mean?", we hypothesised about unlikely professions for ourselves, though professions that are somewhere within the realms of possibility. We decided she would become a political philosopher and I a knitwear designer. Although I hope to work in the Foreign Office or some such, I do knit and therefore it is possible. And my friend, Betty, does spend an extraordinary amount of time considering a variety of realistic and not-so realistic policies.

And while I don't intend this to really be much to do with knitting, I thought it might be a good starting point as I hope to encourage her to start her political philosophy blog.

Also: there is the possibility I will use this to house our spoof dissertation on the significance of galoshes in early 20th century Russian literature next year.