I’ll finally have some time off work, which I hope to use to roll on the green Moscow grass. I’ve had this inexplicable crave for grass-rolling for about a month now. As a matter of fact, yesterday I came closer to fulfilling my dream – I lay on a bench near the house.
Knowing that some of you will want to visit Moscow museums this summer or later, I dedicated my guest blog post on Cheapoair Travel Blog to this very topic. The carlift museum, theatre museum, museum of erotica, museum of Oriental Art, and more wait for you.
(By the way, if you want me as a guest blogger, or ready to guest blog for Los Cuadernos de Julia, drop me a line).
Sad news today: BBC Manchester building on Oxford Road has been sold for 10mlnGBP. I spent there 2005 and 2006 and visited many times after. Sad it’s about to disappear. Read my Qype review of it.
Great news: Maria Sharapova will be Russia’s flag-bearer at the Olympics. It was Maria’s life-long dream that is about to come true. And in November she marries her basketball fiancé, Sasha Vujacic. An altogether brilliant year for Masha!
Odd news: those who share the views of an Oscar-winning Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov formed a party recently. As the party symbols, they adopted the black-and-gold St. George standard and the eight-pointed star of Our Lady that used to grace the Russian military standards. In their political programme they rely on the writings of Pavel Florensky, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Peter Struve. The party “For our Motherland” believes that Russia is the world’s greatest civilisation, but speaking about Mikhalkov joining the ranks the present head of the party commented: “We are not sure that Nikita Mikhalkov joins our party, and it seems to me that he’s quite content with the status of a nonpartisan“.
The latter is the phrase of the week for me.
