Author Topic: Curious about winter travel... (Read 12080 times)

BC · « **Reply #25 on:** October 23, 2006, 02:50:01 PM »

Quote from: Michelangelo on October 23, 2006, 02:38:17 PM

Idar-Oberstein... That's it! Small world :-)

I actually enjoyed the day I was snowed in there--beautiful little village.

Indeed it is.. on both counts!

jb · « **Reply #26 on:** October 23, 2006, 02:58:23 PM »

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I'm the internal optimist

Does this mean you are happy with your liver or kidneys?

Actually I knew you meant "eternal" optimist, just couldn't resist that opening.

Gator · « **Reply #27 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:02:26 PM »

JB, Good one about the daughters! (that was a joke, yes). And good one about the "internal optimist"

KenC, Screw the Tigers. It should be a great Series. Both teams collapsing at the end of the season and now recovering to play their best ball.

Gator · « **Reply #28 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:05:49 PM »

Viking,
People who know me realize that it will do no good to comment about my young women. I am perhaps a dissolute soul and certainly indifferent to others’ opinions.

You asked about the women in the photos. First, the coffee photo. One is an agency co-owner and the other is a girlfriend (the woman in blue). She is mid-40s, intelligent, decent and very settled and independent in life. She works as a CFO and makes the big bucks (new car, luxury apartment, etc.). She is looking for a decent man so I did not qualify.

Seriously, we tried it for a while but I think it will not work out. See what men are missing by avoiding women in their 40s (but that is another thread).

The tall circus performer is also in her 40s and looks 35. She is a Cossack and one of the most fascinating women I have known in my life. I say that even though we can barely communicate in English. I like her a lot. Against my normal pattern, I rushed the relationship (I have known her only one year) and even talked about marriage. This made her back up (and I know to never say "I love you" to a serious, confident woman before she tells you). At least I can trust her motivation if not her judgment.

She receives plenty of attention from RM so I have a lot of competition. Plus she also is financially independent. We parted for three months and have now reconnected (my ex-fiancee called her for me). We just recently decided to meet this New Year holiday in the Caribbean.

There are three other women not pictured in the photo who are important to me (age 31, 40 and 42). Too many women! :hairraising: And they are upset that I am not spending New Years with them, so I expect them to lose interest in me. One will not.

Kuna · « **Reply #29 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:17:03 PM »

Quote from: jb on October 23, 2006, 02:58:23 PM

Does this mean you are happy with your liver or kidneys?

Actually I knew you meant "eternal" optimist, just couldn't resist that opening.

You guys really crack me up!

I'll pay that one. I guess that's a lesson for posting in here early in the morning...

Hmmm... "Must proof read everything, must proof read everything."

jb · « **Reply #30 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:20:31 PM »

Ya know something??? I'm not crazy about photo comparisons for judging a couple. I've not aged much in appearances since I was in my 40s, I looked old then. I just aged early. A friend of mine did his most obvious aging still in his 30s. Lots of men look young well into their 50s.

Women, OTOH, tend to grey up early and then fool us with the dye job we aren't smart enough to figure out. I recently commented to my wife about how "young" her friend in Moscow looks. My wife told me, "she has more gray than you do". But she still looks good with that paint job.

You guys need to concentrate on some measure of compatability other than what a woman looks like for a change. Trust me, in the end you will be a lot happier.

BC · « **Reply #31 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:34:39 PM »

Thread checker anyone?

ConnerVT · « **Reply #32 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:48:19 PM »

Quote from: Michelangelo on October 23, 2006, 02:16:18 PM

Take a look at my poor car!

What a whiner! I had that much snow on my car when I got out of work this past Friday... and it's only mid-October!

SANDRO43 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:56:33 PM »

Years ago I was in Salzburg, Austria at the end of January. Cold, windy, packed snow on the sidewalk outside the Mozarteum Concert Hall.

Women in furs and evening gown stepping our of cars at the hall entrance, wearing knee-length rubber boots and carrying a satchel, dashing inside to the cloakroom and changing from boots to elegant shoes from their satchels. It was later explained to me that what the ladies feared most was the snow-salt mixture damaging the leather

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Anything similar in winter-time FSU ?

BC · « **Reply #34 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:00:36 PM »

Sandro,

In RU rubber boots are called 'nylons'.

jb · « **Reply #35 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:01:51 PM »

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Anything similar in winter-time FSU ?

Yes, shoe cleaning is a ritual performed at the door everytime you come inside. Failing to clean your shoes is not something you want to be guilty of. Considered very bad manners.

Gator · « **Reply #36 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:05:52 PM »

Sandro wrote,

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Anything similar in winter-time FSU?

Yes, the poor girls must replace the newspaper at the bottom of their boots that had absorbed water leaking through the holes in their soles. Sad, but that was the case a few years ago.

JB preempted me about the shoes at the door, even in summer.

Actually Sandro, I am amazed by the little amount of snow that falls in Moscow. The entire winter accumulation is less than one good event in the Northeast US.

jb · « **Reply #37 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:38:55 PM »

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The entire winter accumulation is less than one good event in the Northeast US.

Quite right. While it snowed every day while I was there a January or two ago, very little accumulated. Maybe 4-6 inches for the 3 weeks I was there. I remember thinking it was odd, i.e., "it's always snowing, but where does it go?" I think it was a very fine mist of ice I was seeing and it looked a lot worse than it really was. Whatever amounts that did accumulate on the sidewalks was dirty and slushy and turned into sheet ice overnight. I remember one day stepping off the marshrutka and the woman behind me lost it when she hit the ice. I heard the *gasp* and turned in time to catch her. Listening to her you'd have thought I was in line for the Congressional Medal of Honor, I guess a Russian man would have just stepped aside and let her fall

SANDRO43 · « **Reply #38 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:43:12 PM »

Quote from: BC on October 23, 2006, 04:00:36 PM

In RU rubber boots are called 'nylons'.

Aahh, so that's the reason behind those squeaky sounds I am told one can often hear in FSU cinemas

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ConnerVT · « **Reply #39 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:44:38 PM »

Crowded family apartments are another reason...

BC · « **Reply #40 on:** October 23, 2006, 04:49:45 PM »

Quote from: SANDRO43 on October 23, 2006, 04:43:12 PM

Aahh, so that's the reason behind those squeaky sounds I am told one can often hear in FSU cinemas .

Quote from: ConnerVT on October 23, 2006, 04:44:38 PM

Crowded family apartments are another reason...

Ahh... another essential item when packing... WD40!

SANDRO43 · « **Reply #41 on:** October 23, 2006, 05:00:20 PM »

Quote from: BC on October 23, 2006, 04:49:45 PM

Ahh... another essential item when packing... WD40!

There you go again with your incomprehensible acronyms

.
What's that ? Waste Disposal For Nobody ?

BC · « **Reply #42 on:** October 23, 2006, 05:03:14 PM »

Quote from: SANDRO43 on October 23, 2006, 05:00:20 PM

There you go again with your incomprehensible acronyms .
What's that ? Waste Disposal For Nobody ?

Sandro,

WD40= sblocca tutto.. lubrificante.. http://www.wd40.com/Brands/wd40.cfm

SANDRO43 · « **Reply #43 on:** October 23, 2006, 05:10:13 PM »

Quote from: BC on October 23, 2006, 05:03:14 PM

WD-40 softens new baseball gloves

I see, my inexperience of Russian life is really abysmal. FSUW in rubber boots massaged by FSUM wearing baseball gloves. The free market is opening new, astonishing vistas

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viking · « **Reply #44 on:** October 23, 2006, 05:12:17 PM »

Gator

Thank you. And you are right about some of the 'older' women. There are some real beauties out there. Just have to look.

Considering what everbody is saying about the cold, having New Years in a tropical place sounds a lot more inviting. Enjoy!

Michelangelo · « **Reply #45 on:** October 28, 2006, 09:18:21 AM »

I'm still pondering your question about winter travel to the FSU.

I did it several times. It's hard. And it can be dangerous. Take a look at these pics I made last March! And realize that the airport can be closed and you can get stranded on your way in, or you may have to stay longer than planned.

Summer is definitely a better choice

docetae · « **Reply #46 on:** October 28, 2006, 09:52:43 AM »

Quote from: Michelangelo on October 28, 2006, 09:18:21 AM

I'm still pondering your question about winter travel to the FSU.

I did it several times. It's hard. And it can be dangerous. Take a look at these pics I made last March! And realize that the airport can be closed and you can get stranded on your way in, or you may have to stay longer than planned.

Summer is definitely a better choice

If you wonder about winter in FSU, first travel to Canada ...In fact I have seen no difference between winter in Kiev and Montreal ... Cover your extremities carefully ... feets, hands but ears too ..Get good shoes and good socks.

TexasBoar · « **Reply #47 on:** October 28, 2006, 11:37:07 AM »

Looks a lot like Spokane, Washington, where I lived for 8 years. I wouldn't go back there voluntarily in the winter, either.

~Boar

Michelangelo · « **Reply #48 on:** October 28, 2006, 12:05:13 PM »

I have been to Canada and Alaska and Maine, and nothing was as cold as this trip last March to the FSU!!!

And I did not mention the 7 hour blockage on the highway on the way to the airport. I was stuck so long that I did not dare run my motor. I had to perserve fuel. And every hour I jumped out of the car to take a leak.

Here's a pic... of the traffic LOL

Michelangelo · « **Reply #49 on:** October 28, 2006, 12:11:42 PM »

Here is another airport picture, made when the planes started flying again. Believe me, I said a prayer as we took off!

Also, here is a pic of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, on Woman's Day last March.

Still wanna go in Spring....err...Winter?

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