I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 490. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about St. Basil's Cathedral,

Red Square, the Kremlin, the Metro, and Secret Cold War bunkers as we go to Moscow, Russia.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the amateurer. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Don't forget to check out more information on that Cambodia trip, April of 2016,

in Amateur Traveler.com slash trip.

And now let's talk about Moscow.

I'd like to welcome the show Alex Block

from Alex Block Travels.com who has come to talk to us about his home city of Moscow, Russia.

Alex, welcome to the show.

Hello Chris.

So Alex, why should someone come to Moscow?

So these days Moscow is changing a lot.

Though we just probably for most of your listeners who haven't heard about it for the last few

years, Moscow is known as a very, very expensive destination with a little bit

unfriendly people, with a little bit hard to get with lots of problems with

traffic and lots of things are changed for the last couple of years here and also

Russian now going through big economic problems Russian Rubel is going down. So it's a lot cheaper now to come here to live here,

probably twice as cheaper as for example a year ago. So for those who wanted to visit maybe at some time and leave it for some other time now

maybe it's a great time to explore and you say twice as cheap as it was last year

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