Tag: museums
Bogotá
Bangkok
Santiago
Iga Ueno
Kowloon
Oslo
Stockholm

Dates visited: August 13, 2012 – August 16, 2012 After spending 9 days in Russia, surrounded by signs and names in Cyrillic script and advertisements for unfamiliar Russian brands, I had (subconsciously) missed not being bombarded by the marketing blitz of familiar brands! I realized this when, during our taxi…
Moscow

Dates visited: August 4, 2012 – August 9, 2012 I visited Moscow primarily for the churches with those colorful bulbous domes. What I remember it for is (1) the most fashionably-dressed women I’ve ever seen, (2) really long escalators running deep underground to metro stations, and (3) getting stared at…
Saint Petersburg

Dates visited: August 9, 2012 – August 13, 2012 Saint Petersburg, Russia’s gateway to Europe, is 445 miles northwest of Moscow and easily reachable by Sapsan high speed trains. The proximity to Europe makes it a more popular tourist spot that Moscow so finding an English-speaking person here is easy.…