Zoology museum, Moscow Part 2

Here are some more images from my visit at the amazing Zoology museum in Moscow. Moscow felt very polluted, before I went there I used to think that London is polluted but now London feels like a fresh walk in the Alps! My friends said that they have some amazing sunsets in Moscow, pink and purple and all kinds of colours but its not very amazing as those colours come from pollution… I had a really good time though and got addicted to Russian strawberry and mint toothpaste and Nikolaj's pie's - they have three pie cafe's in Moscow, very good ;)

Time for tea.

Moscow's Underground Part 1

I have wanted to explore the beautiful underground stations in Moscow for years and years and now finally I had the chance and was over excited and dragged my poor friends around in the underground very late at night trying to see as much as possible, and you can see why, this is Dobryninska station on the circle line, just one of many stations that resemble a palace more then a underground station. The platforms are much wider then in London and Stockholm and the ceilings are very high, lot's of marble and on some stations like this one there is old USSR propaganda art.

Moscow - The State Darwin Museum Part 2

Well, hello you. Look at those teeth!

Ever since I was a kid I have loved watching documentaries about animals and nature but still today I find out about new species of animals and the mind-blowing diversity on this planet, some of these guys I had no idea even existed and I wish I would have written down there Russian names and asked my friends to translate but I was to excited in the museum to even think of that, maybe you know the English name for these little guys?






Some of them look like horror film creatures.

Moscow: Darwin's Museum Part 1

MinaMilk knows that my favourite museum in London and Stockholm, is the Natural History museum, so when I came to Moscow she immediately took me to State Darwin's museum - and I was completely blown away.

State Darwin's museum explains the theory and work of Charles Darwin and focuses on the evolution and how animals have evolved and adapted, there was unfortunately not any signs with information in English which was a minus but the museum is mind-blowing and has a large collection of animals and I really liked how they displayed them. Here is a small exhibition about the various kinds of guinea pigs that made me laugh quite a bit as these normally quite cute guinea pigs look like an army of evil fur balls or what do you think?





The next exhibition is showing how wolfs were domesticated and evolved into one of our favourite pets, the dog. I like how the museum also is displaying art in the exhibitions that shows the animals behaviour, habitats and evolution.




That's it for now.

Москва part 1

I'm back in London after a epic week in Moscow, Russia. I was very lucky, normally February is the coldest month during the year in Moscow (according to my Russian friends) but I was lucky and it was between 1 - 4 degrees so it felt a bit like spring.

I'm quite tired after the flight so I will not give a full report just yet but I can at least tell you what's in the photos, the top one is of a kiosk selling meat and milk products. There were plenty of small kiosks every where,  when you go down in the underground and walk the isles to go to the ticket barriers the isles are often filled with really small kiosks with super small windows selling everything from underwear, hats and wigs to women's clothes, tobacco, sandwiches and gifts. There were also plenty of small kiosks selling religious items like icons and jewellery.

The second image is of old traditional Russian sweets that I thought had so beautiful packaging that I had to get and try some, and this image, I think you know what it is?






And last but not least, me and MinaMilk, a very good friend and super talented Russian illustrator, freezing on the Red square.

Something quite extra ordinary happened during my visit to Russia, it was decided that lace underwear should be forbidden starting from July 2014 - no, I am not joking. You can read more about it here.