Yuzhno - November 2007

Couple of weeks left before leaving Sakhalin... we decide to take a walk in the park since a few colleagues who came for short 1-2 week visit is leaving the week after, so I quickly agreed as this is a good chance to bring myself to take s few snow pictures.


Somewhere in Gagarin park..


The team..


The small lake now covered with snow... tried the ice and could hear some cracking sound, so we decide to not venture too far.


Taking a break at a Russian restaurant by the park..


On the way back to the hotel.. starting to get dark..


still in the park


Picture from the week before.. at Mountain air..again.


Mountain Air.


Some snow/ice.


Someone having fun in the sky, caught this with 300mm zoom, so it didn't look too sharp.

After the short walk and photo session, its also time for dinner. When to Sapporo for a simple meal.


Some king crab dish.


Squid?


Tiger prawns..

Moscow - Moscow in Autumn..

Found a free long weekend in Russia, so decided to check out Moscow with another colleague...


St. Basil's Cathedral.. this is what I have in mind of Moscow before my visit, so I am putting this picture first. :)


This is near or inside Kremlin.


Bought this Russia looking hat at Arbat and decide to snap a picture for the memory. Arbat is a street filled with cafes and some souvenir stores, HRC is here too.


Inside Moscow's metro


Arbat at 8am...


Some soup for breakfast..


With poppyseed pancakes...


Funny looking restaurant


This is the outside the Revolution Square


Revolution square metro station entrance


Thats a statue of someone on a horse


Underground shopping complex


Theatre outside Kremlin


Art museum


Tsar Cannon


Nice building


The Moscow river


Pushkin's museum of fine arts..


Church?


Forgotten where and what this is.. haha.


Somewhere around Kremlin


Kremlin ... from a distance.


Night view of streets in Moscow

Another picture taken in the night

Took this picture outside a shopping mall...

The Red Square

Souvenir shop / Musuem in Red square

Nice shopping mall

Looks like a mosque but its a Church.

A simple lunch with my Korean-Russian friends(Inna and Tim) from Sakhalin met on the flight to Moscow.