Looking back on 2016 - MAY

I mentioned that May was a month not present in Moscow. Just for the weekend when the Championship game in Ice Hockey was on the 14^th. Tickets were bought long in advance to my commitment I took on in Norway for April and May. And how often do you see a game between home country Russia and Norway in Moscow.

Have to say I missed out on much of the festival Moscow have in the early May. For 3 weeks they celebrate food. Fish and Meat in separate periods, farmers and suppliers get their spots and quite exciting to bring back to Norway or Italy some local taste of Russian food. Either it is Bear meat or Russian Caviar.

The celebration is also linked up with the Russian Easter that gives us a long time Moscow are decorated in flowers and Happy Colors. We can feel this last all the way until December.

Festival

One thing Moscow Commune is good at it is to celebrate the festival they intend to celebrate. They cover the whole city with a designated group of designers so the city is linked up with the same any place you go. We are lucky for most of the places are very central, like outside TSUM at Kuznetski Most. That the Cultural office to the commune is close by maybe helps. Other places are along Nikolskaya almost from Lubyanka to the Red Square at times and not at least at Revolution Square and Square Manezhnaya.

 

 

 

Ice Hockey

After almost 3 years this was my first hockey game in Moscow. “Park Legenda” is a fantastic area, including also the museum of legendary ice hockey players from Russia and the CCCP. At the World Championship there opportunity for kids to meet and great some of them during the weeks the event lasted. This winter they also included and outdoor arena for hockey. We did not expect too much out of the game, but pleased to see that Norway “only” lost 3-0. Hope to be back this winter to see some of the local Moscow teams in action.