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Check out my first book 'A Year in Moscow', covering 2009 -10. Like the blog but with more photos. Click on the image above to view the whole book at Blurb.com.
You can contact me at accidental.moscovite@gmail.com
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I am an accidental Muscovite, swopping a lifetime in London for Russia. Join me in the confusions, pleasures and - hopefully - moments of insight that going somewhere else can provoke.
and the follow-up...
If you have enjoyed this blog, then come and visit me elsewhere - now I have found myself accidentally in Sydney, Australia. This is a city that seems very straightforward on the surface - so I hope to look behind appearances.
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Tourist and expat sites
- Couchsurfers - Moscow
- Element: entertainment weekly
- English Russia
- Expat-blog.com
- Guardian Travel: Been There - Moscow
- InterNations:Expatriates in Russia
- Moscow events ticket-booking
- Moscow Hotels
- Moscow in your pocket (city guide)
- Moscow International Portal
- Moscow Life
- Moscow News
- RIA Novosti (Russian news in English)
- Russia behind the Headlines
- Russia Today (TV)
- Russian cities and regions guide
- The man in seat 61/russian journeys
- The Moscow Expat site
- Way to Russia
Language
Cool places to eat
- Academy of Sciences Sky Lounge
- Bon (international)
- Cheese Hole (swiss/cheese theme)
- Denis Simachev (contemporary russian bar/restaurant/shop)
- GUM department store (Red Square/various)
- Jagannath (indian vegetarian)
- Kvartira 44
- Ludi kak ludi (pople like people)
- Mari Vanna (traditional russian)
- Masterskaya
- O2 lounge, Ritz-Carlton Hotel (international)
- Solyanka (contemporary russian/bar, club,shop)
Art, culture and design
- The Calvert Journal: a guide to creative Russia
- Moscow Design Museum
- Design East: Moscow
- MARCH: Moscow Architecture School
- Art Lebedev design shop
- Tretyakov State Gallery
- Moskvoved
- Respublica bookshop
- See-you-in-Moscow
- Artguide
- Theory and Practice (Russian only)
- Buro Nahodok design shop
- Design Boom design shop
- National Centre for contemporary arts (NCCA)
- ArtPlay
- Baibakov Art Projects
- Zavod Flacon
- Proekt Fabrika
- Winzavod
- Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture
Miscellaneous
- Moscow Photos from crazy heights
- Antique and second-hand markets (russian only)
- Moscow Ice Skating Group
- Moscow Book Swap club
- Passport magazine's food critic's blog
- The Moscovore (culinary adventures in the Russian Capital)
- Enjoy your cooking (russian food recipes)
- Russian Foods (shopping site)
- After the Soviets
- Real USSR - lifting the Iron Curtain
- The Master & Magarita book project
- Communal Living in Russia: a virtual museum of Soviet everyday life
- Russian utopias (museum of paper architecture)
- Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
- A Journey through Slavic Culture (blog)
- Backstage in Moscow: confessions of a Russian ballet dancer
- Updates from Chater and Toohey
- Phoebe's walks: exploring the Moscow area
- Bike rental in the Moscow countryside
- Moscow Mania walking tours
- Hikers, Walkers and Nature-lovers, Moscow
- Moscow Architectural Preservation Society (MAPS)
- Archnadzor Moscow preservation group (Russian only)
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