The Joys of being Irish

The purpose of our trip to Denmark was to renew our Russian visas, we had done this one year earlier with out any problems. Since then Russia has changed it's laws on where you can get your visas, namely in your home country or as Europeans somewhere in Europe. But as Ireland is outside the Shangan agreement we thought there might be the chance that we wouldn't be able to get our visas in Denmark, which I found out to be ture on the monday morning. So we went to plan B. Monday afternoon I was on a plane to Ireland, Tuesday morning I was at the Russian Embassy in Dublin and got our visas issued there on the spot, Wednesday morning I was on a flight back to Copenhagen. Last year when we were in Denmark I enjoy a really nice week and was able to relax a bit before returning to Moscow and had hoped to do the same this year. After my flying trip home to Ireland and back to Copenhagen I was finally beginning to relax on Saturday before flying back to Moscow on the Sunday morning, so much for my rest!

The latest photo of our kids

Daniel, Timothy, Karina and Sonja

A week with Family in Copenhagen

Here are all our guys with thir cousins, David, Thomas and Philip.
Gudrun's dad Hanus, sister Betty and mum Solrun
This is what Timothy did most of the time, playing Playstation with Thomas
Visiting Andras (Gudrun's brother) and Gitta's summer house.

I Love Coffee

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.