Old Arbat where I live is famous of the the poet and the singer Bulat Okudzhawa. I like his lovely ballads so it is the time to walk around old Arbat quarter and to feel the atmosphere of his childhood… There is his monument and in the evenings young people with guitars sit there plaing. Old Arbat is pedestrian zone now: a lot of painters, souvenir-vendors, fortune-tellers… I took a long walk along Moscow River. I saw new, huge cathedral Christ the Saviour and took the best pictures of the Kremlin from other side of the river. There is also huge, ugly monument of Peter I on the river…
Not far from the Kutafaya Tower where they sell tickets to the Kremlin I had excident: rinning person “accidentaly” droped the pack of USD in a plastic bag in front of me. Then another man asked me to pick it up… I did not. I know the trick: Since there is no owner he will offer me to spilit the money or just to count it. Then the owner will come back saying that there was more money in the pack so you must give him the balance or he will take you to the police. Do not pick up the dollars from the sidewalk!
