1988 Russia trip
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Sunday June 5 - Oakland 10:50 (United) - Seattle 12:38 - 2:00 SAS - 8 hours 40 minutes - 11:05

Mon 6 - (11:05 pm) 8:05 am - arrive Copenhagen (9 hours different) - (2:20 am) 11:20 SAS to Stockholm 12:30 (3:30 am) - 1:10 to Moscow - 5:20 Moscow (6:15 am) (11 hours earlier)
1 ruble = 60 cents

Tues 7 - Moscow tour - Olya Mironovoi - St. Basil's Cathdral - G.U.M. - lunch - Institute of USA & Canada Relations: Victor Lishchenko - Arbat Street walk - dinner - Metro tour - Leninsky Prospekt: Centrali Dom Tourist

Weds 8 - Kremlin, Lenin's Tomb - Society for the Preservation of Nature, Kelinin Prospekt

Thurs 9 - Botanical Garden: indoor, water plants / trees / Japanese garden / natives (Gennnadi Alferenko) - Arbat restaurant - Tetrapov Museum (art of 30s & 40s) - Beriozka ("books") - bowl - stamps - evening: circus

Fri 10 - Reenek (market) - Tcheremoushky (near hotel) flowers & vegetables - Exhibit of Economic Achievements (seeds) - lunch at Exhibit grounds - Russia Hotel Beriozka $16.61 shawls - Boat - (rain) - evening: Folk Music Concert (in hotel)

Sat 11 -Reenek "Ptichi" (animals) (Taganskaja Metro stop) - Progress Books - lunch in other dining room - Novodevic'e Convent - Took train to end of line: Dachas - evening: thunderstorm

Sun 12 - Kolumunskaya (Tsar's summer palace) - 11-ish - 3 hour flight to Tbilisi (+ 1 hour later, so arrived 3-ish) - dinner - Lenin Square: "flower" show - beauty contest - bus & walk home

Mon 13 - Vakia Hotel - Tbilisi tour: old city - Reenek (two stories of big old building + flowers outside) - cable car to Holy Mountain & walk down

Tues 14 - Manaveem Kaheetia region: Sovkhoz farm: the incredible Georgian banquet - evening walk to Museum of Georgian Folk Architecture & Life

Weds 15 - Institute of Viticulture, Orchards, & Wine-making - Botanic garden (old city) - botanist who wanted to know about Hebrew - energetic older lady: herbs - Mazkheta: flowers below castle (the old capital) & church with bull's heads ---> 11:30 to Tashkent, Uzbekistan - 2:00 (= 4 am, 2 hours difference) (2 1/2 hours flight)

Thurs 16 - Tashkent: Hotel Moskva - slept - HOT - Institute of Orchards & Viticulture: trees, vegetables - lunch (beer -> felt bad) - slept (overheating) - evening: walk: department store - dinner - ice cream [Peace Park]
40 degrees C = 104 F - and it was 41 degrees C
350 to 400 mm rain / year
45 degrees to minus 30 degrees

Fri 17 - Kolkhoz? east of Tashkent 40 miles - Agyanok farm - 2,000 hectares (1560 for orchards) - grapes + - sanitarium, green houses --> nice vegetable & fruit lunch --> city tour: Mosque / Madresah - Beriozka (Hotel): ring $16.30 - Tea house (Uzbek, Japanese, Russian, French gardens) - walk: (reenek) (old bazaar across from hotel)

Sat 18 - 46 degrees Tashkent ----> 10:15 to Alma Ata, Kazakhistan 11:25 - 1 hour 10 minute flight - dam / skating rink walk - sports complex - restaurant - temperature in the 30s - forest walk - pick-up - sat outside, cute Russian guy - Hotel Medeo in the mountains

Sun 19 - 10 city tour - (wedding palace), wood castle, folk museum - lunch: Kazakhistan Hotel - Central State Museum of Kazakhistan: Aisha - evening: circus

Mon 20 - 10 Gorky Park: meet with head lady gardeners - Beriozka: shawl (9.99 R) $16.80 - lunch: Kazakhistan Hotel - Nature Preserve (animals display, drowned lake)

Tues 21 - ((Botanical Garden)) Meeting with Eddy - 37 degrees - Kazakh Museum: jewelry books (12 rubles 20 kopeks) - ((Baths: Arasan)) - folk instruments museum - Reenek - evening: 5:00 leave for airport - 6:00 dinner (at airport) - 10:30 flight to Moscow - arrived 2:30 am - 4 hours flight time + 2 hours wait = 11:30 pm (3 hours earlier)

Weds 22 - Beriozka - Arbat St. Church Art Gallery - Dom Knigi: books - ((Musee Preclodnova = Museum of Applied Art - near Mayakovsky Station)) - 3:00 to airport - 6:40 flight to Stockholm & Copenhagen - arrive 8:30 (10:30 Moscow time = 2 hours earlier)

Thurs 23 - 9;15 to airport (Copenhagen) - 11:30 to Seattle (9 hours difference) - 12: 15 (9:15 pm Copenhagen time) flight to Oakland (Alaska Airlines) - arrive 4:15 pm (3:15 am Copenhagen time)

Took $500 checks & $87 cash
Left with $440 checks + $38 cash = $478
So $109 spent
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Georgian food
tkemali - relishes
satsebeli
khachapuri - pastry filled with cheese
sulugumi - cheese fried in butter
tsotskhali - fish
muzhuzhi - trotters in wine vinegar
pkhali - young beetroot tops with pounded red pepper, walnuts, pomegrantes
kharcho - meat soup with ground rice, cayenne, black pepper, allspice
chikhirtma - chicken / mutton soup with beaten eggs, vinegar, coriander, herbs
fried chicken in garlic & nut sauce
satsivi - turkey in nut sauce
sturgeon in pomegranate
kupaty: sausages: pork, beef, mutton - red peppers, barberries, pomegranate
shish kebab
chakhokhbilu sauce - fowl / mutton, tomatoes, pepper, herbs
chanakhi - mutton, eggplants, potatoes, tomatoes
khinkali - dumplings
khashi - soup: tripe, sheep-/cow heels (eat a.m. with salt, garlic)
tarjun - good green lemonade

Georgian wines
540 types of grapes grown in Georgia, 30 grapes used
- Racatsatelli - dry white of Catsatelli wines only - 3 years oak barrels
- xxxx - sour white - clay jars - rid of radioactive - blood vessels, heart attack
- Saparavi - dry red
* Saparavi semi-sweet
* Jerez (sherry) - fruity Marsala white
Barakoni - good sweet red
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