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Beer City: Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen The Danish Capital: Basic Facts
Originally a Viking fishing village, Copenhagen really started to coming into being a major city around the 12th Century and most put 1167 as the founding date. After sieges and Swedish invasion attempts, which were successfully repelled by the brave and hardy Danes in the 1600’s there […]

Beer City: Moscow, Russia

New! Beer Cities: Moscow, Russia

Moscow, Russia: First Impressions of the Capital

Landing in Moscow at the Sheremetevo 2 airport, what a mix of emotions, fear excitement and expectations of this land, Russia. Growing up when I did, Russia was the bad nuclear enemy and a dark and tragic place that held a certain fascination and until recently was a big mystery. Once landed and the terrifying passport and customs control was cleared it was into the Moscow night and amongst some of the worst traffic I’ve scene since a Friday night on the 405 in Los Angeles!

I’m here to celebrate, a boyhood friend and now ex-pat living here, Michael Cordy is my guide, lucky for me as English is not spoken very much here and nothing is printed in Latin, so finding places is near impossible. Sitting in a taxi catching up, Michael shows me the massive building projects going on, this is a huge city that is growing at a phenomenal rate. Moscow all ready rates as one of the great cities of the world and now it is charging up that list and fast. I learned quickly that Moscow is a city whose citizens are obsessed with Politics and are some of the biggest beer drinkers in the world. Everywhere in the city people are buzzing about this cabinet minister or the new deputy prime minister, I mean for Russian’s it is deadly serious. They are freaks for it, much like the Brit’s are for the royals or like us American’s go for pop stars or pop tarts, read Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton.

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