I’m behind on my writing, here’s something I meant to cover earlier.
Because of the nature of my trip, my impulse is to not worry about experiencing Moscow. But I realized, for me to fly halfway around the world and not get a picture in front of the minarets of St Basil’s cathedral, seemed ridiculous. So while I was in the process of mobilization, which involved morning infusions of steroids and night time injections, I had most of my days free.
There is a gentleman here named Alexey. He gives tours of the city, but he simply specializes in servicing the patients of the clinic. Alexey knows all the best ways to see the city while sitting or staying in the minimum number of spots 😀. He also has knowledge on tap of all the handicap bathrooms around.
So our day out consisted of visiting a beautiful Christian Orthodox church, visiting Red Square (Red doesn’t reference the communist party or anything, it translates to “beautiful”), including pictures in front of St Basil’s and the Kremlin, a river boat tour (which was really more of a 2-hour nice dinner, but we had our own tour guide to show us the sites), and capped off with a 1:75 miniature show of all the stuff to see inside the Kremlin.
So that was my adventure into the city. Check! What occurred to me after I got here, that I’ve been quite enjoying, is what I call “food tourism.” I got a recommendation for food to try (pelmeni. Imagine a tortellini but 4 times the size), and I sent my parents out to try and find it. They enjoyed doing this so much that they started trying to bring me back other fun things to try. Meat pies, and peroge, and sausage rolls (hot dog roll)
