Louisa has written an account of our little holiday in Dumfries in Scotland in July. You can read it here on her blog.
She’s also written loads about our holiday in Russia.
Tag: russia
Russia photoblog
Here are two selected photos from our holiday in Russia. I’ll be upping a whole bunch more at some point. The first is a sunset behind the Kremlin in Moscow. The second is of some kids in St. Petersburg.
Москва
Did he find a keyboard that does Russian? Or did he copy and paste from Wikipedia?
I did find a keyboard but I’m too lazy to write properly, so I copied and pasted.
Рщдн агсл Ш зкуыыув еру цкщтп лун сщьиштфешщтю!!!
We’re in a restaurant (ресторан) in Moscow. There is a computer built into every booth with which you order your food. When you’ve ordered it then let’s you browse the Internet for free. The menu ordering system uses Flash and if you right click and click “About Macromedia Flash…” it opens a new browser window and takes you to Macromedia; you don’t have to order anything to browse. The food looked great so we ordered anyway (there is a human element to the security system anyway. He’s sat at the door with a shaven head looking menacing).
I came across a squat toilet today but luckily I only needed the urinal. The whole squatting thing makes sense but is no doubt difficult the first few times. It’s the wiping that worries me: no toilet paper. Put it this way, left handed people have no friends in Russia.
Mooscow
We saw cows in Moscow. We’re leaving Moscow for St. Petersburg tonight, on a 8 hour overnight train. We saw dead Lenin, which would be a good name for a band.
I was going to write the title of this post in Russian, but ironically this keyboard (in an Internet cafe) is qwerty only.
I’ll probably write more when I get back. Or I might not.
Also, you can’t be sure whether I actually wrote this from Russia or I queued it up before I left like the last post. That’s a bit of mystery for you; spice things up a bit.
Can’t get to my mobile answer-phone messages or my e-mail, so if you need me send me a text.