Prague was exciting after the lull in St. Petersburg.
After being coaxed by Thing 1 for 5 weeks, I arranged pottery classes for her and I am so glad that I did.
She is driven but for almost the first time I saw her so excited about something. Pottery is fun but not very easy to learn. One has to find the right kind of a…
Where you stay is a big part of the experience of a place. I loved where we stayed in Moscow.
While entering Russia, they had made us wait for an hour at the immigration. They took our passports and just…
It’s been 4 months and 24 days since we left home. My school friend asked me if we were homesick? I can only say for myself. Deepa and Thing 1 and Thing 2 will have a different take on this.
No. I’m not homesick. I don’t get homesick. At least not yet. I do miss my…
9 May 2016, St Petersburg
The metro stations in Moscow are very beautiful and super clean but my first experience with the Moscow metro station was very intimidating. Cold air gushing, huge empty halls, very long industrial escalators descending, stern faces, loud trains, very few signages. Almost bunker like. And I was right…
6 May 2016, St Petersburg.
24 April 2016, Moscow.
Red Square is special. I was telling Thing 1 & Thing 2 yesterday how amazing it is that we…
This country has always been a mystery to me. When we decided to travel to Russia, I was worried about getting around, people, language and food…
It’s there everywhere. Everyone knows how to do it. For kids, its just what they do to create things to play with. But as I begun writing about it, I thought it is best that Thing 1 writes as she has been the one totally loving it. And she was so excited to write her first blog post!
Today is our last day in Japan. Here is where all we went to in Japan over the last 43 days. Here’s the summary of few of our…
The Ninja restaurant was highly recommended to us by a cousin so we had to go there since we were back in Tokyo. And…
