Stranger In Moscow

Advantages: A unique and interesting experience, some fascinating sights
Disadvantages: Can be a confusing and not as beautiful as most European capital cities

...General Impressions Let me start this review by saying nothing in Moscow is easy. We spent a great deal of time in confusion! This is partly because of the language barrier. In France, Italy or Spain you can make out at least some of the written word or you find you actually remember something from school after all. Russian cyrillic is, however, incomprehensible to the English eye. Then there's the fact that Moscow isn't really set up for tourists at all. Nobody "tells" you anything. Nothing is signposted or explained. For example there did not appear to be a single sign pointing to the Lenin Mausoleum (and I wish I could tell you where he was now, but I still don't know, we never found him), the metro stations are often unmarked and unsigned and there is nothing explaining the three different types of ticket that can be bought...

Tricia24 19.05.2006 · Read review
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A world of fashion at your fingertips

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...I have big boobs, a big bum, and a big belly - which can make shopping for clothes on the high street a little difficult , not just because of the low availability of plus sized clothes in some stores, but also the indignity of waddling out of a changing room in too-tight jeans to ask for a larger size . So, when I saw an advert for Fashion World telling me that their clothes went up to a size 32, I figured that this might be just the place to get some funky new kit to cover my size 22 body . The company are part of the J D Williams group, a large range of online/home shopping companies - and once you have an account with one, you can use that account to order from any of their websites - something I found pretty useful - more on that later . The site is fairly simple and uncluttered - The sites logo in a nice got pink colour in...

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Moscow - Must Go.

Advantages: A unique cultural experience which you will never forget. A high "WOW!" factor.
Disadvantages: Without local knowledge or a grasp of the language, it could possibly be pretty intimidating

...One of my biggest regrets is never having to been to Berlin whilst the wall was up. Amanda, my wife, once managed to visit East Berlin - with no papers - but that's a different story! Since the demise of Communism, I've been behind the former Iron Curtain twice. On this occasion, we visited Moscow. There's a lot to say about Moscow and I won't be able to say it all here, naturally - but I'll do my best to give an informative glimpse of this fantastic city. I can't comment on hotels because we're lucky enough to have friends who own a flat in Moscow, and that's where we stayed. Let me try to tempt you, anyway! I guess the first thing to say is that the currency is a little confusing - in the sense that you're never quite sure whether to use US dollars or Russian roubles. Most of the time it's fairly obvious but it helps if you...

andymcf 01.11.2002 · Read review
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Moscow - the practicalities

Advantages: Fascinating city, diverse mix
Disadvantages: Expensive, arbitary opening hours, queues

...If you want a review to romance about Moscow and tell you about the glistening streets of the Arbat, you'll have to go elsewhere, because this review is aimed at telling you more practical hints for going to Moscow. I only went for 5 days, so there will be lots of places that went unexplored but it's also a good amount of time to see all the major sites. We flew with BA into Domodedovo airport and made the decision to take a taxi into the city. There is a train as well which takes about 45mins and which stops at a railway station out in the West. But we booked a cab at one of the stalls and it cost us about £20. Not cheap but ok. We stayed at the Radisson SAS Slayvanskaya, which is supposed to be a 5* hotel but wasn't extremely luxurious. It was quite expensive at £100 a night but we wanted to have an International Brand name...

sekyc 12.08.2004 · Read review
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Hotel Pekin Moscow

Advantages: Central
Disadvantages: Its a dump

...Hotel Pekin Moscow I have read many reviews on this hotel & most of them are bad... very bad. I was there September 2007 & the staff are terrible. I have never been treated with such utter contempt. Not one person will help you. They are utterly useless & often aggressive. I booked my room in advance. I faxed the details, they faxed my confirmation with room cost & reservation number. I confirmed all this by email but when I got there a few days later they knew nothing of my reservation, I showed them their own fax & they still had no clue. After staying two days they decided to put the rate up & the manager told me 'Give me that paper' when I showed her the fax. When I complained this was insane to put the cost up after we had agreed the rate, she just started making out going phone calls & glared at me. To add to the prison camp...

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Bratz Game - Passion for Fashion

Advantages: A game the family can play
Disadvantages: Girly

...Its a Bratz night out, you know they have to look good. They check their closet......but oh no the top isn't there! The Bratz have been borrowing clothes and they have to get their own clothes back. -----------------Packaging---------------- The game is in a box which is mainly pinks and purples. It has a picture of 4 Bratz which are involved in the game. Cloe, Sasha, Jade and Yasmin. ----------------Contents------------------- A gameboard which folds out. It is divided into 4 and each quarter is one of the Bratz home spaces. 4 revolving 'closets' which are circles that can be moved round. 4 push pegs which are pushed into the gameboard and attached to the 'closets'. 4 'fashion boards' in green, blue, pink and yellow. 4 Bratz pawns with stands. 20 tokens which are star shapes in green, blue, pink and yellow...

rojm 11.05.2006 · Read review
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Fashion Designer Style Icon

Advantages: Creative and different
Disadvantages: Quite a short game, played it in a month

...the game creators. Career is the main game containing 50 missions, when you pass one mission you can go onto the next, you have different scenarios, ie; on the top screen it says that the telephone is ringing, on the bottom touch screen it shows mission 5 baptism of fire, keep touching the bottom screen with the pen, and read the words on the top screen, it is Zoe on the phone, she will not be in work today, she was supposed to design a blouse for a fashion journalist coming tonight, you then offer to design the blouse that they were supposed to do, you keep clicking on the bottom screen and read the conversation with Zoe on the top screen, you then get to 3 examples of a blouse outline, click on the designof the blouse you want and click the type of fabric, you decide if you want arms on the blouse etc. You are then given the basic...

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MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURGH GUIDEBOOK.

Advantages: Help you to find your bearings and plan your day.
Disadvantages: I found it useful as a guide, but tended to put it away during the day.

...Several years ago, I went for a trip to Moscow and St Petersburgh, and went prepared with my Guide book, hoping not to miss a lot of the sites that I would not have otherwise known about. The Cadogan Guides to different Cities have always been concise and this one is no different, although to me, visiting a country or a new town is not so much about reading a guidebook, as exploring and finding out for yourself what a city has on offer. The guide is detailed and gives you details of transportation, details of walks which was fascinating, and of course full details of the historic buildings that make up cities of the world, their background, and information that perhaps you may miss on a guided tour. MOSCOW I followed the map the first day, and took myself into Red Square. I wanted to see it. I wanted to feel the ambiance...

thingywhatsit 05.06.2004 · Read review
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Dedicated followers of fashion?

Advantages: lovely magnetic dolls to dress in many different outfits.
Disadvantages: small and fiddly

...My youngest daughter was recently four and this magnetic dress up doll set was the present that I got for her older sister to give her. Both girls really love dressing up dolls in different clothes so I knew that this was likely to be a big hit. They are like the old fashioned cut out dolls that I loved so much when I was a child but, these are much more clever and easier to play with than those. The first thing to mention is that these are flat dolls who live in a tin. This is very clever because it keeps everything safely in the one place and also because the clothes are magnetic and the tin is metal they all attach to the tin so again making it harder to lose all the bits. At any one time there are four dolls that can be dressed. There are also four changeable scenes which show different times of day and different times of year...

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Must go to Moscow

Advantages: Culture, architecture, paradoxical, metro
Disadvantages: poor customer service, Russian only spoken

...As a child I had always been fascinated by the Red Square parades in the shadow of the Kremlin and St Basils Cathedral. My vision was that of a far off place, full of snow, peasants and an indecipherable alphabet. How wrong I was?? Expectations ? peasants, gang warfare and snow. And arriving at Sheremetevo does nothing to dispel the illusion. Dark and dreary you can wait a couple of hours to push your way forward to passport control who devour every inch of your passport and visa. Domodedevo is a much more modern airport and the cafes are very reasonably priced on the outward journey. However as soon as you leave the airport and hit the city you quickly realise how vibrant Moscow is; loads of history, shops, restaurants, beautiful women and a meticulously efficient metro system. Hotels are good, but if given a choice...

Baltica 27.08.2004 · Read review
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