Big City Time

Getting up this morning was a challenge thanks to the great farewell dinner yesterday. I think the complete group was a little bit out of shape. But through heroic efforts we managed to get our act together and boarded the plane from Rostov on Don to Moscow. We were of course looking forward to seeing the big capital, but as always there were mixed feelings when leaving a city. Our time in Rostov on Don had been awesome and the people were so friendly and caring. We will miss you all.

After a slight argument about our passports and visas with the airport police in Rostov on Don we arrived peacefully in Moscow. We were received by the rotarian Natalya who took us to here appartment for a nice dinner and some rest.

In the evening we went to see an amazing dance performance at the Tchakovski theatre. We went there by the Moscow Metro, which has some extraordinary stations, which could easlly be mistaken for ball-rooms or museums.

The dance performance contained two acts. The first one was based around tango and other ball-room dances. but the dancers must have been schooled also in clasicall balet, because their skill and precision was incredible.

The second act was based around Ukrainian folk-lore and an act about a really bad hang-over where the drunken Ukrainian man goes to hell with dancing devils and whiches. The dance contained acrobatics at a level which I have never seen in a dance performance before.

After the show Oskar and I were piced up by Zoja, our host mum. We are living in here apartment in a suburb in Moscow and the day was ended with a nice supper with Zoja, here daugther Larisa and her friend Olga. After that both Oskar and my-self slept like babies and got our well-deserved 7 hours of sleep before getting up the next morning, ready to attack Moscow.

Best Regards,

Anders