This post is for Tara's Photo Gallery, and this week's prompt is 'Adventure'. Click here for links to the other entries.
If you've visited The Potty Diaries before, you may know that I'm currently living in Moscow, Russia. Life here can be seen as taxing, exhausting, and insular, if you're not careful. It's easy to reach the stage where you close yourself off from the constant assault of 'Foreign' on your senses, choosing to stay home, venture out only when the cupboards are bare, and live from the beginning of one school term to the end of the next, buoyed up only by the prospect of leaving for your next trip 'home' the instant the school bell rings.
People do that, here. For years sometimes.
Or, you can simply treat each day as an adventure. Even when all you're doing is making a trip to the supermarket.
I've been wanting to take this particular photo for a while now. Any ex or current Moscow residents reading this blog will probably recognise this spot; it's on the main road from Sheremetyevo Airport - for a long time, the only international airport for the city - into Moscow. The soldier shown is in memorial of the soldiers of the 2nd World War (there is a female version on the opposite side of the road), and it's an iconic representation to many Muscovites of the pride they have in the sacrifice Russia's people made in fighting back the tide of Nazism.
To me, he and his female compatriot simply symbolise Moscow, and on a personal level - Adventure*.
* Because let me tell you, it felt pretty adventurous lowering the window in -15degC so I could take the photo whilst negotiating heavy traffic...
If you've visited The Potty Diaries before, you may know that I'm currently living in Moscow, Russia. Life here can be seen as taxing, exhausting, and insular, if you're not careful. It's easy to reach the stage where you close yourself off from the constant assault of 'Foreign' on your senses, choosing to stay home, venture out only when the cupboards are bare, and live from the beginning of one school term to the end of the next, buoyed up only by the prospect of leaving for your next trip 'home' the instant the school bell rings.
People do that, here. For years sometimes.
Or, you can simply treat each day as an adventure. Even when all you're doing is making a trip to the supermarket.
I've been wanting to take this particular photo for a while now. Any ex or current Moscow residents reading this blog will probably recognise this spot; it's on the main road from Sheremetyevo Airport - for a long time, the only international airport for the city - into Moscow. The soldier shown is in memorial of the soldiers of the 2nd World War (there is a female version on the opposite side of the road), and it's an iconic representation to many Muscovites of the pride they have in the sacrifice Russia's people made in fighting back the tide of Nazism.
To me, he and his female compatriot simply symbolise Moscow, and on a personal level - Adventure*.
* Because let me tell you, it felt pretty adventurous lowering the window in -15degC so I could take the photo whilst negotiating heavy traffic...
