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On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!
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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Just a brief note on tech issues with previous submissions that got eaten. We’re working on restoring them; I’ve gotten a few Wed and Thursday that are fine, and next week I’ll post some that came in via email. I am not sure how successful we’ll be in restoring the lost ones, but I’ll have more info soon.
Have a great weekend, everyone. We’ll run part two of this submission next week. Please note, Origuy, the last picture didn’t come through (“the gate”) so I removed that section.
Today, pictures from valued commenter Origuy.
At the end of 2012, my friend Natasha told me that she was going to spend a month in Moscow, to visit her mother and take care of some business. She told me that her mother would be driving her crazy after two weeks and invited me to join her for the last two weeks.
Originally, the plan was to stay with Natasha and her mother, but once she got to Moscow, she discovered that her mother had become something of a hoarder and had dogs that didn’t like strangers. So they set me up with her mother’s best friend Luda, who had a big apartment on the opposite side of Moscow. She also had big dogs, but they turned out to be friendly. Luda spoke very little English and I spoke a little more Russian, but we managed.
Taken on 2012-03-10 00:00:00
Outside Moscow
One day, Natasha, Luda, and I, along with Natasha’s nephew Saava, went to a small city outside Moscow called Sergiyev Posad. It’s about an hour by train from the Yaroslavsky railway station, one of the cities that make up Moscow’s Golden Ring.
Taken on 2012-03-10 00:00:00
Sergeiev Posad, Russia
Sergiyev Posad is sort of the Vatican City of Russian Orthodoxy. It grew up around one of the largest and
most important monasteries, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergiu
Taken on 2012-03-10 00:00:00
Sergeiev Posad, Russia
On the way to the monastery, you come to a small shrine enclosing a spring which is supposed to have healing powers. You can buy bottles of the water or just dip your hands. I didn’t bother, and I was the only one of us who didn’t get sick later.
Thank you so much Origuy, do send us more when you can.
Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.
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Mary G
I love the domes.
JPL
What an experience you must of had. Living among local people is different from the ordinary touristy events. Thank you so much for sharing.
OzarkHillbilly
“Don’t drink the water!” words that every traveler should heed.
arrieve
I love the last picture of the path through the snow. What a great experience — thanks for sharing!
eclare
What a trip! Looks cold.
Amir Khalid
The Bloglord’s Twitter feed appears to have been removed. The word “Twitter” is still there but not the box with the tweets themselves. Was it done for site performance reasons?
ETA: It looks like Old Man Winter is still not done with Russia. Brrr!
rikyrah
Great pictures.
Origuy
Yes, I had trouble with the form. My fault, I lost track of where I was. I’ll send the rest later today. If you click on the pictures, they are links to my Flickr photostream.
These are from 2012. I’m not sure I would go to Russia now. I hear from some of my Russian immigrant friends that Putin has made many people anti-American. Everyone was really nice to me then.
susanna
Thank you for these along with commentary. Always a good idea to get out of the city, especially with locals.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: That happens to me if I have Ghostery set block social media.
Origuy
Another story about the “holy water”. Natasha doesn’t fly much, and hadn’t been on a plane since 9/11. So she didn’t know you aren’t supposed to have liquids in your carry-on. We flew back together from Moscow and changed planes in JFK. When we went through customs, they found two bottles of Russian Standard vodka in her bag that she was bringing back as gifts. Why she brought those back, I don’t know. You can buy them at Bevmo. Anyway, our checked baggage had not been loaded on the plane and was still in the same room, so they allowed her to put the vodka in her checked bag. They didn’t find the water and she was sick so she forgot about it.
It didn’t make me feel safe to know that the security at Sheremetyevo didn’t find three large bottles of liquids.
Origuy
I couldn’t edit. She had a bottle of the water from the shrine, which TSA and Russian security didn’t find.