Let's take advantage of the snowy Sunday to look at my second visit to Moscow in, I think, April of last year.



The overnight train ride to Moscow involved Mini Russian Monopoly!









One of the buildings lining the Red Square is a huge mall full of high-end clothing stores. Wikipedia-ing it to find out what it was before I discovered it's always been a store. Well, apparently minus the years Stalin had it under his control.




















The cathedral in the distance is the Pussy Riot church.




See the man in the middle, trying to hand the leaflet to the couple? They are all over the fucking place in St. Petersburg and I hate them. See the bright red sign to the right of him? That's one of what I feel like is very few Wendy's in Russia.




People's blanket statements about cities have been proving true a lot of the time. Tallinn was quieter and calmer than St. Petersburg, and Moscow was the opposite: fast paced, both hustley and bustley. Before taking this photo I glanced down for a SECOND, and when I looked back up a man who was about to run into me was kind of motioning me aside so he could rush around me.



I got the impression that Moscow's got some really sweet bars though.