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Moscow's birthday party September 2015

On Sept 3-6, the city of Moscow celebrates its big lavish birthday party. I have been previously in Moscow for business but never for pleasure, so there we were, celebrating with Moscow. We managed to get our hands on tickets for the famous military parade on the red square. The day we arrived it was raining cats and dogs, with a forecast of rain for the coming 3 days. Imagine our surprise, when we woke up the next day to wonderful sunshine that lasted all 3 days of our stay. Later we were told by the concierge that they (the Government...) prevented the rain by sending special airplanes to scatter the rain clouds away from Moscow, to make sure nothing and no one rains on their parade! Can you believe that! Even the weather can be controlled in good old Russia!
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MID

Our hotel was located opposite this monumental building, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is located at one of the busy major intersections of Moscow.

Let me translate for you the street signs below. 1. New Arbat (main street) 0.8 km to the left. 2. Sadovi circle, 3. Komsoloskaya street 1.5 km to the right. IN YELLOW - I guess the yellow sign is marked as the most important one and it reads: "MC Donalds 24hrs" to the right! I found this hilarious!

24 hours Mc Donald

Moscow has a mixture of people with a huge gap between the rich and poor. The rich are notoriously rich and the poor ... well, they are just very poor. I found prices to be very high even for European standards, I can't imagine how the average local person can even afford a cup of coffee in a nice cafe.

Talented, but poor musicians at every corner
This is the famous shopping mall at the red square, it is more of a museum than shopping mall, with such prices, only the first lady can shop there...
The best way to get around Moscow is to use the Metro. The metro stations are amazing, I just went from one station to the next to take photos of the station. They are all different and all amazingly beautiful. The Moscow Metro is perfectly safe, all under control!
Not only children enjoy a good swing ! Here outside the Pushkin metro station are swings, where adults (more than children) are having a blast swinging.

Non stop traffic in Moscow

Smash the dress
Kings and queens are walking among us

I hope you enjoyed our short trip to Moscow.

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