Weather looks wonderful! Does it feel very different from when we were there? To me at the time the USSR seemed rock solid and I couldn't have imagined it changing in our lifetime. So wrong!
Yes, I have been fantastically lucky with weather. Certainly in Irkutsk I was thinking that this could be a city in Western Europe except for the Cyrillic. By the time I got to Moscow I had got used to seeing the traffic, Western style advertising and brands. Thirty years ago I remember Moscow having a very distinctive smell, from the diesel they used I think. No more.
Yes, I don't think anyone imagined it collapsing, is such a short space of time. . I guess the dots were there but no one joined them up. .
Weather looks wonderful! Does it feel very different from when we were there? To me at the time the USSR seemed rock solid and I couldn't have imagined it changing in our lifetime. So wrong!
ReplyDeleteYes, I have been fantastically lucky with weather.
ReplyDeleteCertainly in Irkutsk I was thinking that this could be a city in Western Europe except for the Cyrillic. By the time I got to Moscow I had got used to seeing the traffic, Western style advertising and brands. Thirty years ago I remember Moscow having a very distinctive smell, from the diesel they used I think. No more.
Yes, I don't think anyone imagined it collapsing, is such a short space of time. . I guess the dots were there but no one joined them up. .