This country is moving very fast. I have been there several times and although there is a lot of talk in the press about India and China growing fast, Russia is showing incredible dynamism and growth. I have only seen Moscow so far, and its terrible traffic jams can be irritating, but overall I like the atmosphere and the sense of energy and pride the people are showing. How things have changed in just 10 years.
I went on a short walk last Friday with a colleague, and the Kremlin and the Red square are simply magnificent. I really like St Basil's cathedral with is colorful domes. It looks like it is coming from a fairy tale
On Saturday morning I had to fly back to Brussels, but before I did I woke up early and went to find my first geocache in Moscow. A quick look at Google Maps showed that there was a geocache just 2.5 km from my hotel : the Novodevichy convent cache. It was raining and the walking was not ideal, but obviously because of the rain there were very few people in the streets of Moscow, and even fewer around the parks of the Novodevichy convent. I took a walk around the place, and it is an interesting area full of churches, cemeteries and green parks. Worth an in-depth visit when I visit the country again. The cache was easy to find and I left one of my geocoins in the cache. I also picked up the two geocoins that were in the cache and brought them back to Belgium.
This was the 35th country where I found a geocache.
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