48hrs in Geneva
After a day in Lausanne for Lou’s job we arrived in Geneva by train into glorious sunshine, jumped into a taxi and headed to the Hotel Rotary despite him insisting it was only a short walk away. He was right in the end, but we didn’t have a map due to printer malfunction and he made himself a bit of cash.
Moscow – Autumn in Sokolniki Park
Sokolniki Park is in the North East of Moscow and gets its name from the area of the city that the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich’s Falconers used to live as Sokol means Falcon in Russian and he was a keen hunter.
Moscow – Autumn Weekend
Here in Moscow the Autumn days of falling leaves in parks seem to be all too short but this last weekend was one such weekend, nice ‘crisp’ (cold-ish, but no rain) weather, and still had to catch up that the failed attempt at a walk in the park last weekend.
Moscow – the first month or so
It has been about 6 weeks since we moved here to Moscow and it feels like we have done so much, and so little, from multiple trips to Ikea (a necessary evil!), to being overawed in Red Square, once again multiple times. So the apartment we settled on is in the area of Kitai Gorod [...]
Photography – Trying to make money from it
I have been thinking about ways I can make a bit of cash from my hobby of photography, it looks like I have two options, building a portfolio website or selling via stock photography website. Portfolio Website I could use this option to display my best work and hopefully sell some work directly and get [...]
First Moscow Visit – Part 2: Falling for the City
We arrived at our hotel early in the morning at about 5.30am on Thursday and pretty much went straight to sleep. After having a lot of sleep we spent the afternoon looking at three different temporary apartments in Aparthotels with Elena (from my Wife’s company), they were all tiny and really designed as an alternative [...]
Firstly…..
Hi all, so I have started this blog as I am about to move to Moscow for a year or so with my wife and I wanted somewhere to record our experiences. Whilst I have a photoblog (that I rarely update), a technical blog (also rarely update), I wanted a blog about my life and [...]
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