hi,
I'm back from moscow.
The weather was fine almost throughout 25-30th.
So, BBC was right(see pevious post).
Under Brejinev it was a quiet city.
Under Gorbachyov and Elitsin it was the emergency period.
Now under Putin, it is the contrast between the past like old 5-storeyed buildings or Czech?-made trams and the present like tall, glittering buildings or traffic jams by very large number of western cars.
Food is better and cheaper(e.g. shashlyk, pirozhok) in Moscow than in England. I bet.
But hotels are expensive.
I stayed at my friend's flat, but this time getting visa gets very troublesome and can be costly.
