Drunk driver

When the Russians have had enough to drive, they let their dogs drive.

This man was buying booze in a store on the way home, so probably close to the truth.

moscow man trap

This drain disappeared overnight. Thank god that I cycle on the path.

The scrap yard next door having a bar-b-que

I think they have burnt the sausages.

This should be a video.

Doors open on train

It was a misty morning this morning on the way to work. The tall weeds were siloetted in the cold sunlight.

Maybe because of the humidty, maybe because of cheap unserviced parts, the doors on the train wouldn't shut, so after a long wait, the train drove off with the doors open and people looking out.

It held up the next train which could be seen waiting in the mist.

A safe Path

Find the safe path to the station?

Workers dug this out on both sides but put no fence to stop people from falling in.

Lots of Drunk Russian men + deep hole by path = man in ditch in morning.

It'll happen one morning and I'll photo it.

Russian Bear Training

Well we eventually found Russian Bear Training.

He trained it using pieces of bread. There were 3 bears in this compound.

I guess a traditional Russian Bear training costume

...but this bear just stepped forward and back, forward and back, time and time again. if a human did this we would say he is crazy. I used to see big cats and apes act like this in Zoos in UK back in the '70s.

Russian Recycling

This is next to a country rail station. The men sit here, drink beer and throw the bottles over their shoulder.

Nothing different than from the city but in the city poor people come and collect the bottles. They get 30 Rubles per bottle. 47 Ruble = £1.

But there are no poor who can be arsed to come here, or as they are poor, they don't come to the rail station. Whatever, the bottles stay here.

Beautiful isn't it. This will be dug up in 2000 years time and will be an 'ancient burial ground' or something stupid like that.

Moscow traffic lights

We had a thunderstorm two days ago and yesterday no traffic lights worked in the entire city of Moscow.

Today they managed to repair some part of the lights. Now drivers have to decide between go and stop. Here go left means drive into the path of traffic doing 50 mph! The sign underneath means STOP.

Nice misty morning. It is 29C here and thunderstormy. So when the rain hits the ground, it steams.

Chairs... CHANGE!!!

Out with the old

In with the new

Bus stops

I decided to collect photos of bus stops.

What a fantastic and interesting hobby.

This one they stuck on the wall the wrong way.

Fell off bike

Like an 8 year old, this 48 year old fell off his bike and I now have a set of injuries and grazes which I show to my friends..... just like an 8 year old.

nothing changes much then.

Crossroads black spot

All the emergency services use their flashing blue light to beat rushour traffic. They also jump red lights with their little blue flashy lights. All the Police chiefs have big black cars with blue flashy lights.

This ambulance driver thought he could Blue light his way through Butovo's Black Spot Crossroads where everyone jumps red lights.

Hopefully this idiot removed himself from the human gene pool.

Russian traffic

This is a Moscow crossroads that is a Black Spot. Everyone jumps the red light from both directions. Every other day there is an accident here when I am passing to work.

This is the giant Moscow car park known as the MKAD. The idea is that people get on the car park and slowly drive round until they want to get off, thus allowing someone new to enter the car park. They don't get out of their car, just shuffle forward. A great idea. It is reported that late at night people actually use this car park as a short cut to get from A to B Without Parking!!!! The English equivalent would be the M25

A impatatient Russian driver in a crappy Moscvich car jumping ahead of 4 cars and pushing in, the guy he pushed infront of was oblivious to his actions as he was having a good old laugh on his mobile.

Head pillow

Fantastic Russian idea to help the pissed Russian customer support his head whilst taking a pee. Each urinal has a padded cushion at head height. well, my head height anyway.

Summer Snow

The pollen is so thick in Moscow at this time of year (June) it is like snow. The air is full of dandilion seeds and this white pollen.

Dad's new shirt