Moscow day 2

Photos: Elegant grocery store; inside GUM; Starbuck's in Cyrillic


Sept 30
Yay!!! A day without busses, lectures, guides. A totally free day in Moscow. Our hotel is located on one of the major streets in Moscow so it is very convenient to everything. We spent the day walking, walking, walking. We went back to Red Square, took another look at Lenin’s tomb, checked out the most elegant grocery store we have ever seen, spent a little more time in GUM where I got to have ice cream. We went to Tchaikovsky hall with the intention of getting tickets for a Bach cello concert but it turned out that the concert was a Bach organ concert which we declined. We found an Armenian grocery where we did a bit of shopping. Checked out the Moscow version of Draeger’s at GUM and picked up a few things there. We had read of a Russian restaurant that we valiantly tried to find without success, then tried a recommended seafood restaurant that was closed for a private party and finally gave up and had dinner at an Italian restaurant where we had a decent pizza. Overall, a good day!