Well this post is not really in chronological order, Wendy and I went for a walk in Snegiri and we wanted to post about it, but so many other cool things kept coming up. So here it is about 1 1/2 weeks late. This is designed to give you an idea of what stuff looks like outside of the 4th largest city in the world (Moscow). But don't be fooled this is not the suburbs, those don't exist out here in Russia. It actually is kinda nice to live outside of the city in a somewhat mellow village.
THIS IS A TYPICAL LOOKING HOUSE, SOME PEOPLE LIVE HERE ALL YEAR ROUND, AND SOME USE THESE PLACES AS Дача (Dacha) or SUMMER COTTAGE.
BRICK IS VERY POPULAR TO BUILD YOUR DACHA OR HOME WITH. I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY.
The only downside of living outside of the city is the added cost of traveling into the city for: work, seeing stuff, shopping... and so on. It costs 49.5 rubles to go to Тушинская (Tooshinskaya) train station, then you have to get on the metro, which costs 28 rubles, and then it is possible that you have to take a Машрутка (Mashrootka) which costs 35-40 rubles. So all added up that is about 110 rubles or 4 bucks. Now you might be saying to yourself " 4 bucks isn't a lot of money" But remember, then you have to go home for the same cost, so now you are at 8 dollars. And lets say you go into the city 2 or 3 times a week, now it's 24 dollars for the week.
MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE OUT HERE IN SNEGIRI HAVE BEAUTIFUL GARDENS OF: Помидоры (pomidori/ tomatoes), Картошки (kartoshki/potatoes), Моркови (markovi/carrots), AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST Капуста (kapoosti/ cabbage).
THIS PICTURE IS FOR MY MOM IN LAW DIANE. LOOK AT THEIR GREENHOUSES. WENDY REALLY WANTS YOU TO BUILD ONE LIKE THIS. THEY USE FLEXIBLE PIPING AND 2X4's TO MAKE THEIR GREENHOUSE TALL. I'LL HELP YOU BUILD 3 THIS WINTER.
Many people like to go into Moscow from here just to simply walk around. I think this is quite fun also. Moscow has so many attractions to offer that are just fun to look at, you don't even really need to spend all your money doing events and other things because just walking around and seeing all the sites is fun enough. But just make sure to bring enough money for ice cream. I will blog about Russian ice cream in the future but it is pretty stinking good.
A GANG OF Уличные Собаки (oolichni sobaki) STREET DOGS. THEY LIVE ON MY STREET: GVARDESKAYA. THEY USUALLY SLEEP ALL DAY AND THEN CHASE AND BARK AT THINGS AT NIGHT. STILL I THINK THEY ARE KINDA CUTE.
The only downside of living outside of the city is the added cost of traveling into the city for: work, seeing stuff, shopping... and so on. It costs 49.5 rubles to go to Тушинская (Tooshinskaya) train station, then you have to get on the metro, which costs 28 rubles, and then it is possible that you have to take a Машрутка (Mashrootka) which costs 35-40 rubles. So all added up that is about 110 rubles or 4 bucks. Now you might be saying to yourself " 4 bucks isn't a lot of money" But remember, then you have to go home for the same cost, so now you are at 8 dollars. And lets say you go into the city 2 or 3 times a week, now it's 24 dollars for the week.
Many people like to go into Moscow from here just to simply walk around. I think this is quite fun also. Moscow has so many attractions to offer that are just fun to look at, you don't even really need to spend all your money doing events and other things because just walking around and seeing all the sites is fun enough. But just make sure to bring enough money for ice cream. I will blog about Russian ice cream in the future but it is pretty stinking good.
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