Day 14 - Weekend in Moscow

Intro: I am sorry for not posting enough, but I consider it ridiculous to post things such as: "(...) Today I took a walk and it was raining soooo much! And then I saw a dog chasing a cat! Soooo exciting! (...)".

Real thing:

Weekend in Moscow! I am gonna spare the details and instead of huge boring descriptions, I will try to be short and right to the point about the impression the Russian capital gave me.

• City: BIG, ENORMOUS, HUGE, very fast, very alive, really never sleeping, looooooots of people, loooots of traffic, dirty, NOISY, enormous areas, big parks (most of them with an entrance fee !!!), 7-lane avenues (per direction), luxurious cars, amazing historical monuments, new skyscrappers, bridges and churches, a real metropolis! Aaaah, did I mention BIG ?!
  
• People: stressed, mostly serious looking, a constant river of people getting squeezed on the subway and the streets even on weekends, lots of immigrants from the neighbouring countries, lots of tourists from the neighbouring countries, 90% of them not speaking English, not service oriented, either extremely poor or extremely rich, taking photos of themselves constantly, girls posing to their friends like if they are models (kind of ridiculous to be honest, worse than Sweden).
  
• Food: really really TASTY (like in Nizhnyi as well), fantastic soups (can't stop eating them), great snacks (piroshki, pliny, etc), soooooooo good bread, equally expensive as Stockholm usually, McDonalds-oriented attitude unfortunately (!!!)
• Women: hmmmmmmmm, let's try to be objective: most young ones close to being models, impressive bodies, tall and thin, the best part comes when they pass by you and you keep following them with your eyes (...), soooooo extremely officially-dressed all day long (heavy make up and high hills all the time), not well preserved above 40 years old though (fat and not ellegant).
• Atmosphere: this city and country still "smells" Perestroika. Even though it tries HARD to get rid of its past, it does so in an ugly way. Rushing to adapt the western culture, without having the "bases/foundations" to control an open-market environment. Therefore huge class gaps are created. New giagantic buildings/constructions are on their way and next to them homeless people sleep on the pavement. (OK, I know it happens in a lot of places, so I am not gonna reflect any further and skip the political analysis)
  

Photos showing the above can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/creep09/Moscow