Moscow, to a stranger, is a labyrinth. Five people & three maps can point you toward a certain place you want to go, all indicating different directions. You never can find what you're looking for & you end up back around, passing now-familiar landmarks, & realize you have gone in the same large circle more than once. Places in my labyrinth:
The Bolshoi Ballet
Red Square
This fellow & I are becoming quite chummy
The last phone booth on earth?
Lush fashions
Today is Thanksgiving in America. A war I have fought with my boots, which have been giving me all sorts of trouble, has been won. I am thankful for new boots & for the joy of dumping the offenders in the trash.
Robin, your observations on Moscow as endless circles are absolutely correct. The city is built in circles: first - around the Kremlin, second - a ring of ten boulevards, third - Garden Ring Road, and even motor-ways around the city are circle roads, the underground transport - Metro is also based on the circle. It is difficult and sometimes confusing for the tourists, especially for the American tourists who got used to the grid street arrangement.
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