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Homestay with Snejana & kids in Tushino, by the Moskva-Volga Canal, Metro Tushinksaya
or Skhodnenskaya.
Snejana, Zlata (7), and Alexander (4) is lots of noise and energy, creativity and a bit of destructivity .. NO OR MINIMAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN MAY 1-10 AND MOST OF THE SUMMER... Active travelers, cyclists, skiers, skaters, horse riders, explorers. Stay with them for a full immersion experience. To find peace chose a quieter place, eg. a room from Snejana's mother.
This room is normally empty and can be availed to guests. Lots of sun. Ask for curtains! And to have the ticking clock removed!
Yes, you can use this Internet-wired computer.
View onto the canal and the North River Port from where you can travel by water anywhere, from Astrakhan by the Caspian sea all the way to Arkhangelsk way up north.
Views from windows
A view onto North Tushino from the Leningradskoye Shosse bridge. June 2009.
I cannot recommend you try this with Bessy-the-cat that turns into teeth and claws when pissed.
Write to Snejana
with a copy to me
Always copy to me when writing to Snejana. She is often off-line for a few days in a row but always in touch with me via telephone. :)
From a walk around the neighbourhood in early April 2009
Bicycle jumps in the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo park in Tushino.
Anglo-American School
Docks of the Moskva toVolga canal
An improvised shelter for homeless dogs, run by the neighbourhood
babushkas.
Tushino is a bicycle friendly area. And yes, you are welcomed to borrow
Snejana's bike - the most comfortable vehicle of the kind I've ever
ridden.
This photos, made in late March or early April, when things are at their gloomiest, is placed here to serve as a disclaimer. Yes, Moscow can be quite ugly when grass and foliage, or snow, are not there to disguise reality.
Water reservoir that supply a good part of Moscow.
Coming up: shops, markets, more parks, the submarine museum, bus
station, ferry...
.
This is my little vehicle, and Snejana is one of the very allowed to
drive it.
Yes, you can borrow these bikes.
(Another host that has bicycles and allows guests to use them is Alls & Sophie from Metro Vodny Stadion. And, of course, my apartment comes equipped with a bicycle.)
From my mailbox:
Dear Pacha,
Snejana asked me to write my impression after my stay at her home. All
that I can say is that she is a very very nice person, I hope she
will have a nice memory of me. I found her place very pleasant, the only
'problem' is that the place is quite away from the center of Moscow and
that it takes long
to reach the center from her place. It might be a little bit difficult
first to find the place when some people dont know Moscow, so it
is a good advice to have her phone tel in case it would be too difficult
for some people to get to her appartement. I found the suburb where she
lives much more pleasant than i had imagined before my first day at her
appartement. I hope some day I could return to visit her.
Best wishes,
Eric