The best of Russia

Went to an excellent photography exhibition yesterday in Moscow. It was called "The best of Russia". When we arrived with junior, in his pram, my heart sank when I saw the long ques at the single "Kassa" ticket box. This box was outside the building, it was, and is cold and snowing here. I thought to myself, maybe its like Slovak organization here in Russia. We used to live in Slovakia and they were hopeless at organizing those kinds of things. I waited in the warm with my son, while my Mrs waited in line for tickets, well she is the Russian speaker and we live in days of gender equality. The place was packed. The photo competition was put together by thousands of armature photos. These photos were sent in by people from all over Russia. Many were excellent. I have put a few on here for you although, they are photos of photos so I am sorry the quality is not so good.

What do you write on a blog? why write a blog? a question I often ask myself. Some people write about what they bought yesterday when they went shopping, what they ate in the restaurant, while others like me, try to write other more interesting things. I am not so sure any reader would be interested in what I ate for breakfast or what I did in the shopping complex or other mundane things. However, I try my best to write interesting things and its fun to write. With this in mind, and ignoring what I just said, my nose has been crusty since I arrived in Moscow, its been full of hard crusty, dry bogeys. I put this down to the city pollution. Or I assume that's the cause. The window sills are constantly black with a kind of dirty black soot. This must be from the car smoke.I am sure you won't thank me for sharing that with you but I feel better now for doing so.

We are due to have a break from Moscow. We are going skiing. As if we need to see more snow. Its been endless here. It will be good to have a break from here. I need to escape every so often. We will be in the mountains breathing in pure fresh clean air. Perhaps my nose will clean out and unblock while I'm away? I hope so. Spring will be here soon or should be here at the end of March. The photos on here are my favorites from the exhibition.