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Random lnsanity / First trip to Russia
« on: February 25, 2013, 09:40:52 am »
Ok, in my continuing effort to encourage Llamavore to get a passport and venture out of his state, I have travelled to Moscow for the first time today.
On the 2 hour drive in from Domodedevo airport, past the Kremlin, to the hotel I am staying in, I saw 3 McDonald's and 2 KFC restaurants. I felt like I was in Indiana, and was going to get mugged by some dude in a John Deere cap. Some dude who goes by the handle Llamavore.
Interestingly, I learned that the Kremlin is not, in fact, the funny looking orthodox church-like colourful buildidng featured in the original Tetris for Nintendo (you know, ehre all the towers take off when you hit level balillion), but an only slightly more colourful version of the Pentagon, and looks like it might be a tetrahedron. I'll have to check the shape from Google Earth.
Given that I am a history major, one of whose focus areas was the Cold War, this is shameful. And I wasn<t even educated in the US...
Not: (this is St Basil's Cathedral)
http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://www.my398.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/207.kremlin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.my398.com/2012/09/12/207-visit-the-kremlin/&h=768&w=1024&sz=148&tbnid=jzOocoZMrV8NUM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=138&zoom=1&usg=__wlBtUz_F5Ts45dflsMEFvStBd7s=&docid=xWAOYVnipPc3FM&sa=X&ei=c4MrUau9FMb0sgakz4Fo&ved=0CEoQ9QEwCA&dur=3733
But:
http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg&h=1536&w=2048&sz=1212&tbnid=6f59BEfbi7BZkM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&zoom=1&usg=__eiybfwWkCeN2r1YEntIvZ4StZFo=&docid=CvHwrvzjRPFDTM&sa=X&ei=c4MrUau9FMb0sgakz4Fo&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg&dur=3083
How the FUCk do you embed images?
On the 2 hour drive in from Domodedevo airport, past the Kremlin, to the hotel I am staying in, I saw 3 McDonald's and 2 KFC restaurants. I felt like I was in Indiana, and was going to get mugged by some dude in a John Deere cap. Some dude who goes by the handle Llamavore.
Interestingly, I learned that the Kremlin is not, in fact, the funny looking orthodox church-like colourful buildidng featured in the original Tetris for Nintendo (you know, ehre all the towers take off when you hit level balillion), but an only slightly more colourful version of the Pentagon, and looks like it might be a tetrahedron. I'll have to check the shape from Google Earth.
Given that I am a history major, one of whose focus areas was the Cold War, this is shameful. And I wasn<t even educated in the US...
Not: (this is St Basil's Cathedral)
http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://www.my398.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/207.kremlin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.my398.com/2012/09/12/207-visit-the-kremlin/&h=768&w=1024&sz=148&tbnid=jzOocoZMrV8NUM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=138&zoom=1&usg=__wlBtUz_F5Ts45dflsMEFvStBd7s=&docid=xWAOYVnipPc3FM&sa=X&ei=c4MrUau9FMb0sgakz4Fo&ved=0CEoQ9QEwCA&dur=3733
But:
http://www.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moscow_Kremlin_from_Kamenny_bridge.jpg&h=1536&w=2048&sz=1212&tbnid=6f59BEfbi7BZkM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&zoom=1&usg=__eiybfwWkCeN2r1YEntIvZ4StZFo=&docid=CvHwrvzjRPFDTM&sa=X&ei=c4MrUau9FMb0sgakz4Fo&ved=0CEMQ9QEwBg&dur=3083
How the FUCk do you embed images?