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Olga |
A Russian online friend shared some wonderful pictures from around Red Square and the Moscow GUM Department store with me, which I'm sharing here. Her name is Olga Rubtsova. All the pictures shown were taken by her and remain her property, with no permission for any other use implied.
We visited Moscow just over a year ago, during last the Christmas and New Year holidays. It was great for all of us to experience lots of things there; the winter, holiday season, Russian culture, infrastructure, attractions, and so on. It was all the nicer for also visiting St. Petersburg and Murmansk, in the Arctic, to see the aurora / Northern Lights, and a reindeer farm and dogsled camp (with photos from that visit and a general description covered in this post). Even the subway systems are a very unique experience in those two cities, far beyond any other city's system in terms of look and style, an attraction in their own right.
I found the Russians we met to be very pleasant, and I'm now a fan of Russian culture. Then again I liked the people and what we experienced in China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Australia, and in other countries, and Thais and Americans are great too (my family). There's not much more about that to cover in this post; I mostly wanted to share those pictures.
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being from the tropics just experiencing winter was an exciting theme for my kids |
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experiencing it all with them was the best part of our trip |
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a Thailand family dressed up for cold weather |
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