The Boy told me that the ladies at his office had wondered where I was the day before. They needn’t worry long – wild horses couldn’t keep me away after I learned that there was air-conditioning. I needed to do a bit of work, anyway, so it was convenient as well. It was really wonderful […]

After breakfast, we met V in the hotel lobby and headed to the famous Izmaylovo Market. It’s a giant flea market located just outside our hotel (the fun buildings in most of my earlier Look at the Smog from our Hotel Window! photos). If we wanted to buy it, it was available. V came along […]

The Boy awoke, refreshed and ready to go. I awoke, groggy, sticky and jealous of his ability to sleep in a strange hotel, in a foreign country, with the door propped open and only furniture and glass bottles to protect us. Now I’m just sounding bitter. But that’s how I felt, probably because I was […]

We’d learned the night we arrived that our hotel stay included a breakfast buffet. We’d even managed to figure out where the buffet was located in the massive hotel complex – all significant victories when 1) you’re jet-lagged, 2) everything is written in Cyrillic and 3) virtually no one speaks English. Side note: there is […]

Our flight to Moscow was fairly non-eventful. It was our first time travelling on Singapore Air and we both agreed that the service was top-notch. Even the coach seats (where we lowly trying-to-pay-off-the-house-and-go-on-a-trip folks sit) were spacious and comfortable. {Can I get a whoo-hoo? Anyone?!?} As we were on our final descent into the airport, […]

This year’s vacation got off to an inconspicuous start. We were totally unprepared, with no time to plot or plan. Life circumstances led us to cancel vacation, then reschedule it five days later. Talk about hectic. So hectic, in fact, that I didn’t even take a journal to capture the stories of our trip while […]