Dear all it has been more than a year since I posted. A lot has happened but I didn't get out much during the year and it became an effort to sit at the keyboard. My apologies.
So a fresh start. Moscow City Day. Moscow celebrates it's founding in around 867 on the first Saturday in September. Peter was still in the UK so I arranged to meet my choir friend Maureen for lunch and we headed into the city. There was the opportunity to listen to music in all of the city parks and there were all sorts of things happening.
First we had to get our silly hats
Here are a selection of pictures of some of the things we saw. A lot of cardboard boxes were used to make different things including clothes boats and strange machines. There was yarn bombing - an American craze for covering trees and anything else in knitting. Plus various other crafts for children and street entertainment.
Vintage stall selling clothes suitcases and anything else someone might buy.
Street performer
Cardboard tree and stilt walker
Entrance to maze of food - which had nothing to do with food.
A giant table and chairs
Tverskaya is usually at a standstill with traffic. Saturday and Sunday were vehicle free days.
Drummers
A cardboard maze
Animated animals
A giraffe made from a step ladder for street theatre
Velocar vehicles
More cardboard creations
Elmer elephants made from newspaper and sticky tape.
Yarn bombing in various guises.
My TA Marina was also out and about and found herself in Sokolniki Park with her sister. There they found this Festival of Bread. These are her photos.
It was not possible to see everything and Maureen and I stayed in the central area. By 6 ish we were tired and hungry so headed home. I went to bed at 9.30 and slept till morning. Other hardened souls kept going well into the evening. An interesting day.
