Oct 28, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in the theatre to watch Master and Margarita
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During the acts there is a pereriv in the theatre to drink chai from the samovar.
After the theatre I joined a night excursion, amazing, to the most enigmatic sites of Moscow related with Bulgakov. Soon I will explain you how was it.
Oct 27, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in the Kremlin
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(Can you see the padlocks? The lovers put them and throw the keys to the river!).
Oct 26, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in Poklonnaya Gora
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Oct 25, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in the Zoo
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Oct 24, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in Park Pobedi
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Oct 23, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day playing chess
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Oct 22, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in Khram Khrista Spasitelia
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Oct 21, 2006 12:00 AMMoscow. One day in the best Metro of the world.
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Oct 06, 2006 12:00 AMBorder between Russia and Georgia is closed!
Owing to the deteriorating relationship between Russia and Georgia, I have been compelled to change my travel plans.
The problem is that Russia and Georgia have recently broken their diplomatic relations and locked all their common borders by land, by sea, and by air. Even Post service between the two countries does not work anymore.
Now, instead of travelling overland from Spain to Russia via the Military Georgian Pass (so loved by the great Swedish traveller Sven Hedin), as it was my first intention, I will start flying to Russia, and the way back to Barcelona, Spain, will do it overland through Dagestan, Chechnya and Ossetia. I hope that this situation will improve soon.
I have found a cheap one-way ticket from Barcelona to Moscow for 150 euros. I will fly on 20th October.
Maybe I will meet Wojciech in Russia during his way back to Gdansk, Poland. I will invite him to drink vodka in one of the charming canteens that I know in Moscow downtown.
Aug 26, 2006 12:00 AMKolkata and Madre Teresa
I arrived to Kolkata Howrah station, crossed the famous bridge and walked until the backpacker Sudder Street, with hundreds of cheap hotels where for just 1 euro you can find a bed in a dormitory. I saw many Spaniards, and in many restaurants some waiters spoke pretty good Spanish language. It was due to the hordes of volunteers from every corner of Spain, Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona, Hospitalet, etc., that nobly sacrificed their summer holidays to work, for free, in Mother House, near Sudder street, with the sisters of Madre Teresa, helping handicapped children or dieing people to leave this world with love. They were virtuous travellers and soon I made friends with them in Jo-Jo restaurant or in the hotel Maria, where I rented a single room for 200 rupees.
I visited Mother Teresa House where I saw her tomb revered in one of the rooms of the ground floor. Some sisters told me that they have just saved that day the life of a little girl. Her father wanted to cut her throat with a machete for having been born female. One of the sisters arrived in time to convince the father not to do so, and took his daughter to Mother Teresa House. I was welcomed and we celebrated together the new life of the little girl.
My last day in Kolkata I bought for my daughters beautiful silk embroideries, eye-catching jewellery items and delicate perfumes, distributed my remaining rupees among the most desperate beggars of Sudder street and headed to the airport.
Now I am ready to fly back to Barcelona, in my dear Spain, to work and save money to organize my next journey to Siberia overland, via the Military Georgian Pass until Chechnya and Dagestan, as every year use to do with the aim to spend Catholic and Orthodox Christmas together with my younger daughter.
Happy New Year 2007 to everybody!
