18/02/2008

Our Garage from Space

The red square marks the little garage (tin box) we keep our car in.
Our apartment is in the end of the building next to the garage.

Driving in Moscow during the winter.

It was snowing real nice this morning so I thought I would bring the camera along and take some photos as I drove (for safety reasons not recommened) through the city but by the time I was out the snow had stopped. Anyway here are a few photos as I drove through town.






Here they are loading snow to be hauled out of the city.This is us back home and the car tucked away into its little garage. It is really nothing more then a tin box, but it keeps the snow and froze off the car at night. Keeps it a bit safer too.


Colours of Summer and Winter







No! not the colours of the leaves on the trees, but the colour of our car, as during the winter when the streets of the city are constantly dirty it is in possible to keep it clean so our car is usually dirty for long spells. It is illegal to wash you car on the street or by the building you live in, so you have to take it to a car wash, as it normaly cost from €10 to €15 to do this, I don't do it too often and somtimes even if I do it can be dirty again in a few days. In a effort to keep the city clean and pretty the Mayor was instructing the police to make drivers of dirty cars wash their cars before entrying the city and driving on his dirty streets. By law you should be able to read the number plate from 25m. I was only 2-3m from the car when I took this photo, can you read it, have a go, you can even zoom in, if you can get 4 or more correct and in order I might have to consider giving a prize.



During this snow shower, the snowflakes keep getting bigger and bigger till they were about the size of a fist, I tryed to catch a short video clip of it on my camera but in the few minutes it took me to figure out how to do this the snowflakes has gotten smaller again. Sorry it is not very clear.