The place we stay for sleeping in Moscow is quite special: a building owned by the ex-Ministry of Cinema dedicated to its veterans and cinema technicians. In other words, a pension for retired film-makers. The communist system has not completely disappeared yet, despite the gigantic advertisements that cover the Moscovite buildings, which make the capital look very virtual, something like a constant open-air cinema. According to Natasha the advertisements not only cover the buildings in renovation, but the real-estate agents decide to put the buildings they own in renovation in order to attract advertisement...
The film-makers' pension gives us the rare privilege to get acquainted with a central and famous character of the eternal Russia: the 'baboushka' (litterally 'old lady'). The 'baboushka' is a good indicator to measure the degree of optimism anyone puts in human kind. Depending on the percentage of nice/bad 'baboushkas' one considers exist in Russia, it's quite easy to deduct his/her vision of the world. In our case, we seem to be rather unlucky, considering the way our 'baboushka' either ignores us or shout at us during the breakfast when we simply ask for more milk. Both Monica (from Portugal) and Monika (from Poland) have been the victims of the very bad baboushka.
The film-makers' pension gives us the rare privilege to get acquainted with a central and famous character of the eternal Russia: the 'baboushka' (litterally 'old lady'). The 'baboushka' is a good indicator to measure the degree of optimism anyone puts in human kind. Depending on the percentage of nice/bad 'baboushkas' one considers exist in Russia, it's quite easy to deduct his/her vision of the world. In our case, we seem to be rather unlucky, considering the way our 'baboushka' either ignores us or shout at us during the breakfast when we simply ask for more milk. Both Monica (from Portugal) and Monika (from Poland) have been the victims of the very bad baboushka.
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