Shortly after 9 in the morning is the conductor's compartment in, we were the same in Moscow. Together quickly cleared, removed the sheets and made ready to get out. At the Kiev railway station has cozy 32 degrees, there are busy with activity. Smog is nothing to see: The wind has rotated and Moscow "blown". After one kilometer walk to the hostel I'm totally sweaty, throw my stuff in the corner and disappear into a cafe for breakfast. Cappuccino for 5 € and an almond parfait for 4 €, but air conditioning. Afterwards we walk from the metro station "Smolenskaya" on the Arbat (Moscow tourist mile) past the Lenin Library, by the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin wall on Red Square. All over the militia is present, it's really to provide for security or to "ask" for tourists to bribe. In the bookstore, "Biblio Globus" at the Lubyanka's first contact with the Russian-friendliness: issues in English is usually reacted harshly, although of course there are exceptions. If you want to buy anything (and beg for comparison with no money) is the normal Muscovites quite patient in explaining the path.
The Moscow Metro is totally different than what we know from Munich. Hang out no timetable, there enters anyway after 2 minutes the next train. You pay per ride, regardless of distance (with the purchase of ten tickets the 24 rubles = about 55 cents). Many people can not afford it, and jostling behind why the people with tickets through the locks at the entrances. Police and Metro officials are indeed ubiquitous, but also keep times like a nap in their jurisdiction Kammerl. The black driver has no money anyway to pay the penalty. Those who read
"Metro 2033" by Dmitri Gluchowski has the know: The Moscow Metro is located deep under the earth, and the escalators are long. An even 125 meters (station "Park Pobedy"), you stand around nearly 3 minutes, until you are up or down. The stations are some fantastic decorated (with Lenin and other propaganda items), but the names of the stations are written only in Cyrillic, and announcements from the speakers usually sound when opening or closing the doors. "The next station is ... WAMM * *" The network plans are Russian and English, but the Guide to outputs or other stations in Russian only. Quite different from the Japanese character, all times to write about much in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English.
recognizable in the background: The Russian Foreign Ministry, resident in one of Stalin's "seven sisters". Before that, the inner ring road in Moscow, where despite 10 lanes is often jammed.
The hostel was ok even if somewhat confused. The quadruple booked room was not available, there were no lockers (for which you have a laptop lock), and at least 5 employees (for a total of 18 beds) all day sitting in the kitchen and drank beer. One of them was was German, and most of the overnight it ends well. Of course learning the language of Carinthia, who spent one month Omsk a few days in Moscow to the two Englishmen from Frankfurt and the Kyrgyz, powered by the Wiesbaden-based labels by Russia and Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan. not to forget the Germans and his Russian girlfriend, who were due to the temporary closure of the German Embassy in Moscow in dire straits, but she wants to study in Deutshcland and had to wait on an appointment in the consular section of 3 months. Some other messages put on her staff because of the smoke from complete - who can blame it, with visibility of 100 m and watering Eye for an hour at the "fresh" air. Fortunately, I am not asthmatic, but are now up smoking 23 years was probably a waste of time. (Here's to buy cigarettes for 9 rubles per box, which is virtually nothing, and the contents of tobacco probably has to do not much).
While the normal Muscovites to a proposal through life, especially in Moscow's many new rich, showing its defense. Over and over along behind with pendants hung ladies, dressed in the finest yarn Heren, spoiled Schrazen. This shows by money acquired self-confidence is also clearly in dealing with staff in shops - or is the customer in Russia as friendly as the seller?
Moscow is a very interesting city, much more interesting than the existing one in the same dimension Tokyo. The architecture, history, the gap between wealth and poverty. The smoke has me unfortunately had thwarted many a plan. The last hours I spent in Moscow in a cafe at the Yaroslavl station in black tea, borscht and comfortable plus 30 degrees x. The wind had the smoke of 11 August again widely distributed, so that it has passed, at least for a visit to the Kremlin.
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