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ameya
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 Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:32 pm Post subject: The Russian Trip Summary |
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I will be adding some photos to this soon but till then,
The trip involved 4 flights outbound, 3 flights inbound across 5 carriers – 6E / LH / FV / LX / AI and 6 unique airports – PNQ /DEL/MUC/DME/LED/ZRH
Some things which might have got repeated from the TR but writing it here again in the summary
-India has indeed taken a lot of things from the soviet union
-SPB continues to have the soviet touch as yet, but not the same with Moscow, which is now moving out of the era, sadly
-Saw a lot of Japanese, who travel with adult diapers. I wonder if that was to avoid paying up at the paid toilets in Russia
-To avoid paying up at toilets, people go into cafes just to visit the washroom. So a lot of washrooms have a bar code scanner at the entry of the washroom. So you can only enter if you have bought something there
-Another thing which Indians took from soviets or probably the other way round was writing on the walls, historical places, so on.
-However, since a lot of restoration work is always going on, these get cleaned up pretty soon.
-The concept of MRP does not exist in Russia. We bought water – 0.5L at 100 RUB and 2.0L at 27 RUB
-English is hardly spoken.
-The Russian metro indeed is one of the marvels and a multi purpose tunnel is amazing
The summary of flights
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Flight Sector Booking Web-checkin Apt Exp Boarding Inflight Food Aircraft Comfort Deplaning Baggage OnTime Avg
6E 406 PNQ-DEL 5 5 5 5 2 3 5 3 4 5 5 4.27
LH 756 DEL-MUC 5 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 4.30
LH 2530 MUC-DME 5 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 4.09
FV 188 DME-LED 5 2 2 3 4 3 3 3 4 5 5 3.55
LX 1325 DME-ZRH 5 4 2 5 4 4 5 4 3 5 4.10
LX 146 ZRH-DEL 5 4 4 3 4 3 5 4 4 2 3 3.73
AI 850 DEL-PNQ 5 2 2 1 1 3 4 5 4 2 4 3.00
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Airline Avg
6E 4.27
LH 4.2
FV 3.55
LX 3.91
AI 3
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ameya
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Flight Flt Sctr A B C D E F G H I J K Avg
6E 0406 PNQ-DEL 5 5 5 5 2 3 5 3 4 5 5 4.27
LH 0756 DEL-MUC 5 5 5 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 4.30
LH 2530 MUC-DME 5 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 4.09
FV 0188 DME-LED 5 2 2 3 4 3 3 3 4 5 5 3.55
LX 1325 DME-ZRH 5 4 2 5 4 4 5 4 3 5 4.10
LX 0146 ZRH-DEL 5 4 4 3 4 3 5 4 4 2 3 3.73
AI 0850 DEL-PNQ 5 2 2 1 1 3 4 5 4 2 4 3.00
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A Booking
B Web-checkin
C Apt Exp
D Boarding
E Inflight
F Food
G Aircraft
H Comfort
I Deplaning
J Baggage
K OnTime |
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ameya
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jasepl
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 11:48 am Post subject: Re: The Russian Trip Summary |
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Thanks for that... I'm even more Jealous, because Leningrad is stunning!
And the Kingfisher 330 is still at ZRH - I saw it just a few weeks ago : http://airlinersindia.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?p=126637
| ameya wrote: | | -India has indeed taken a lot of things from the soviet union |
India has indeed taken a lot of things from the Soviets. And from Britain. Though somehow many of them aren't "foreign" or "against Indian culture" even though they are. There's no point in trying to understand the right-wing logic (because there isn't any).
But, in general, taking or being forced to take things from anywhere is one thing. So many of them are well past their sell-by date though and have even been discarded in their country of origin, yet we continue to perpetuate a lot of the nonsense.
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sumantra
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Lovely, Sir...lovely. Very nice and pertinent observations, as usual.
What a SUPERB medley of photographs! I will join the ranks of people who have not yet had a chance to visit St. Petersberg, for varied reasons, in my case, time, vacation leave, and of course, hard cash.
Breathtaking!
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Ameya - I was trying to click on the food photo to get a larger view - but got a "permission denied" error on flickr  .
The pictures look marvelous!
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| Nimish wrote: | | Ameya - I was trying to click on the food photo to get a larger view - but got a "permission denied" error |
Nimish, whenever I get these food urges, I get a "permission denied" error from The Wife |
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ameya
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| sumantra wrote: | | Nimish wrote: | | Ameya - I was trying to click on the food photo to get a larger view - but got a "permission denied" error |
Nimish, whenever I get these food urges, I get a "permission denied" error from The Wife |
ROFL.
@Nimish - I guess it must be some settings issue on flickr. Shall check that.
Also, shall upload some more photos, of Moscow, which I have not yet uploaded. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| ameya wrote: | | Also, shall upload some more photos, of Moscow, which I have not yet uploaded. |
Mos-Now! Lenin-grad-ed will be your progress  |
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ameya
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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DSCF0319 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
The Moscow university canteen. I wish Pune university had canteen even 25% of its size, menu and quality
20130523_140158 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
Kutafiya tower - the entrance to Kremlin
20130522_140359 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
Red Sqr
2013-05-23-1001 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
GUM
2013-05-23-1000 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
Shawarma !
2013-05-22-976 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
Moskwa river
2013-05-22-949 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
Bolshoi Theatre
DSCF0282 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr
Respect - KGB HQ
DSCF0281 by ameyajoshi, on Flickr |
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sumantra
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Lovely pictures, brought back many sweet memories for me. Thank you! |
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Lots of flights, different places, different airlines.
Sorry for not commenting more- I did read all the TRs tho  they were great. Glad the trip was fun (especially Monino!)
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