I am going to Moscow next month, I have missed it so much........I just wish my Russian wasnt so rusty.... :?
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I am going to Moscow next month, I have missed it so much........I just wish my Russian wasnt so rusty.... :?
Why are you going to Moscow?
I am going back just to visit, just to breathe the air and enjoy myself, and get out of the U.S.Quote:
Originally Posted by DDT
Oh! I am envious.
well i havent been back there in a long time, so i think i am due for a trip lolQuote:
Originally Posted by DDT
I wish you to have good experience. It is very important for you, I think.
yeah i have really missed it and such and i miss the snow too, its so hot in texas all the time i just cant wait to breathe cold air for a change lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
November is really chilly in Russia. I'm not from Moscow but I believe the wheather is approximately the same: Not more than 5 degrees Centigarde and cool sleet, and grey sky, and the smell of the coming winter...
yeah i am going to be there dec 8-12 so it'll definitely be cold, i cant waitQuote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
Snow here, and -10 at the moment! Not in Moscow though :D Anyway best of wishes on the trip!
Where are you staying ? What part that is!
I am going to be in Moscow, Penta Hotel i dunno if u have heard of it or notQuote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
Never heard of this hotel.. :? Anyway, I wish you a happy flight and happy stay in Moscow!
http://jamesmskipper.tripod.com/jamesms ... hotel.html
Is it that one?
I also got results of the 'Moscow Renaissance Penta Hotel'.
If it is a Renaissance one I can assure you it's a very high quality hotel. I've stayed in a Renaissance hotel in Niagra Falls, Canada, if it is the same company...
I'm sure the one in the link is nice also, being an Olympic one.
yeah its the one in the link, I have stayed there before so I know its nice, definitely. But I wont be in the hotel room but to slepe and stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by волк
I envy you also. I'm sure you'll have a great time.
:)
lol well u live in Spain, i am sure that is way better than Texas... :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dobry
I agree! Snow is probably the best thing in the world - I go skiing regularly in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. On that note, do people ski at all in Russia, or is the terrain too flat?Quote:
yeah i have really missed it and such and i miss the snow too
Andy
Depends...I can't get real BBQ here! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by SapphireEyes
:wink:
probably somewhere, but I didnt when I was there lol so I wouldnt really know to be honestQuote:
Originally Posted by andrewsco
lol well i will be glad to trade anytime hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Dobry
There is a big ski resort next to my city. It's Putin's favorite :wink:
You can see it at www.volen.ru
Thanks for that link - struggled to get infomation out of it as its in Russian, but from a computing point of view - what a smart website! I will have to convince my girlfriend to go skiing there, then I can practice speaking at the same time.
Sco
EDIT: Actually - where abouts in Russia is that area, could you show it on a map?
It's about 40km north of Moscow. I'll show you where it is if you find the map of the Moscow Region. I have one but unfortunately I don't store it on my computer.
You can take the train from Moscow to Yahroma and I think there are buses and marshootkas near the station that will take you to the resort. I want to go skiing there when we get enough snow.
now the weather in Moscow is not so cold, still no snow and no rains...but it is now cause last time weather was very unpredictable :) but i guess soon temperature will be about 0 degrees (today +7..9 above zero).
Just don't forget to take warm clothing :)
PS i just live in Moscow so if you have any questions you're welcome :)
Hope we get snow in the nearest future. I can't wait to go skiing/skating. There was some snow a couple of weeks ago but it's all melted because of the warm temperatures. JB, have you ever gone skiing in 'Volen'? If so, did you enjoy it?
i hate winter actually....and every year it gets worse :( i mean i hate all that mess and dirty snow and cold winds :(((((( i wish i lived somewhere in Australia or Brazil :P
PS but i still love skating :) PArk Gorkogo - forever :) though its ice is not very good 8)
Used to live in Moscow but now I live in Dmitrov so I'm only 1 train stop away from Volen! I hope we have a cold snowy winter this year. Last year was awful, warm weather and all the snow turned mushy and dirty. A very sad holiday week with ice and mud, and finally all the ice sculptures melting in one day......
I haven't been to Volen yet but am hoping to ski there this year.
yeah yeah i remember that time :) unfortunately i was too late to see those ice sculptures ;)
I watched them being installed on Red Square at night and they were already dripping. Walked by the ones on Old Arabat a day or two after New Year and those were just lumps of dirty melting ice.
well anyway i hate winter :) and i was very glad when last winter all snow was melted away and my footwear was clean and not salty as always ;)
It is a very nice flash site. I didn't have much of a problem browsing around, I recognised more than I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewsco
It helps to browse around Russian sites (legit information ones...) so you can pick up certain words that you come accross often. Like the days of the week, price systems and times.
Форум (forum), новости (news) and галерея (gallery). Those types of words I usually look out for.
As for the weather last year in Russia, we got news articles on it in the UK saying how warm it was, I remember thinking well of course some are unhappy about it.
How often does this happen? Is it every several years there's a warm patch during winter? Hmm, it could be to do with global warming already...
Hopefully there will be a better snowfall this year. They said the UK is expecting a cold winter this year, I hope so, we only get one day of snow in the south, though I suppose that only means it takes a day or to for that horrible dirty slush to melt away.
How's Dmitrov? I hope that we have a cold winter this year. Not very snowy. I like snow but since I'm into hockey and I go to a public outdoor skating rink to play hockey snow is a big problem for me. If it's been snowing all day long, that means we can't play hockey today or we'll have to somehow remove this snow from the rink, which is usually not so easy.Quote:
Used to live in Moscow but now I live in Dmitrov so I'm only 1 train stop away from Volen! I hope we have a cold snowy winter this year. Last year was awful, warm weather and all the snow turned mushy and dirty. A very sad holiday week with ice and mud, and finally all the ice sculptures melting in one day......
I haven't been to Volen yet but am hoping to ski there this year.
I don't like it either when there's lots of mud on the street. You can neither skate nor ski. Anybody know the forecast for this year's winter? You can hardly ever rely on forecasts though.
40KM north of moscow, thats a pretty good location. Snow is one of the things I love most - It probably all stems from when i was a kid we seemed to get much more snow than now, and we when it was really bad got the day off school. That is probally why I love it so much, + the skiing thing. Bet in Russian schools never get closed cos of snow do they?
Andy
Yeah, you're right that in Russia schools never close because of snow. They sometimes close due to very cold temperatures but it's a rare occasion. I guess that the main reason why you like snow so much is because you hardly ever see it in the UK. Right?
Honestly, I don't know the exact distance from Moscow to the Volen Park cos I've never measured it :D I know that Dmitrov is about 50km away from Moscow and since the Volen park is close to Dmitrov I come to the conclusion that the distance is about 40km.
Горнолыжные курорты России (Russia mountain-ski resorts): http://www.svastour.ru/dolmeny/lygi.htm
well i am sure it will be below zero when i am there in december hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by kasper
Dmitrov is great! If you like hockey we have a beautiful new ice palace and our own hockey team. In Moscow I only skated outside because the ice stadiums were almost never open for the public except for weird hours, and were too expensive. But in Dmitrov they have lots of free skate time and it is not just for the rich. (figure skating outside is pretty much impossible and tears up the skate blades!)
I cant even ice skate, actually i have never tried it.... :|Quote:
Originally Posted by JB
But you have Winter X-Games at Austin every year! Wish I could go!Quote:
Originally Posted by SapphireEyes
You're a lucky guy! Those countries are too expensive for most people here. But we ski in Russia in spite of everything :)Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewsco
By the way, Yahroma opened the season last weekend. And Ski & Board Salon 2005 took place in Moscow last week. It was pretty crowded there.