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Welcome to LoseTheMap, former diary of travels around Asia, then account of everyday life in Moscow, and now with my family in Berlin - VERSIONE ITALIANA

Monday, June 27, 2011

Metro

It's beautiful, deep, hot, fragrant. It's Moscow metro!
One of the few real prides of moscovites, each metro station is a beautifully carved piece of art, where soviet workers were proudly brought to their occupations by these majestic tunnel system unique in the world.
Here's a nice tutorial on how to use Moscow metro - that's exactly what I would say, just with a worst english.
Moscow is a world apart, its metro too, a jewel buried deep under the city.
All this magic doesn't prevent muscovites from NOT making any show of positive energy or emotions.
I look at them in the long, noisy and silent wagons, and I dream of somebody cracking a joke and breaking the silence. Nope.
Sometimes (sometimes eh not too often) I saw people holding hints of smiles on their faces, as if saying "how funny all these serious people here".
It's a tough life in Moscow, after all.

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