Blog Relations in Moscow

At this rate, our little enterprise should be up for a Queens Award for Export. Blog Relations took me to Seattle half a dozen times last year, and now, here I am in Moscow. Seattle is a lovely city, but just being in Moscow gives me so much more of a buzz. All the people milling around the kiosks outside the Metro gives it an entirely different feel from home. Sometimes I think it’s one giant oriental bazaar.

The costs are still reasonable, if you crouch down and speak through a tiny window in a kiosk, pointing to a baton of bread, but the prices in the supermarket are “ouch!” - 6 UK pounds for 300 grams of smoked cheese!  And the mozzarella and chocolate flavoured pitza in the restaurant reminds you that this is still a place where novelty is still quite usual. 

This is definitley a booming petro economy - even if some people are “living nearer to the pipeline” than others.

Okay, so what about blogging? Everybody says it is extremely “fashionable”. I’m not sure that it was ever “fashionable” in the west, but here it is chic and there’s no hint of gawky geek about it.  Moscow has its own fashions still - you can see that from what people wear. 

 I’m not sure yet if being fashionable is healthy.  “Fashion” and “Bubble” are words that go together in my mind.   While I think the prices in the shops are definately reflecting the oil price - and I can see them coming down as well as going up - at least blogging is cheap.  So perhaps it is crash and recession proof?  One day, we shall see, both here and back home.

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