Tweet Sitting in the training room on the second Friday of the two-week Moscow course, Steve and I are staring out over an empty room which, this morning, was full of computers, cables, printers, data projectors, flipcharts and – more importantly – participants. Rena is having a swim and Olga is, as usual, running around, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Moscow’
Moscow Times
Posted: 14th August 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Kolomenskoe, Moscow, summer school, teacher training
Tweet Working towards the end of Week 1 here on the Hornby Summer School, yesterday was a good half day of work combined with a visit to Kolomenskoe where we were treated to a guided tour followed by pancakes and singing and dancing, culminating in the ritual humiliation of the course director (that’s me…) by [...]
Tweet A rather uneventful flight yesterday (turbulence and bad food aside) got me in to Moscow Sheremetyevo airport by about eight, and to my hotel in the centre just after nine, where I found out that relations between Russia and Georgia had worsened considerably in the few hours I’d been out of the Intertubes loop, [...]
Catching Up
Posted: 20th July 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in General, Second LifeTags: Costa Rica, Moscow, OpenLife, OpenSim
Tweet It’s been a while. It’s that time of year when suddenly you realise you really should have a holiday and then you set about organising that and trying to get all your work done at the same time. My plans aren’t helped by the fact I need a visa for Russia before I go [...]
God, Kids and Drunks
Posted: 11th November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: airport, London, microphone, Milan, Moscow, Omsk, radio, Russia, Second Life Links, Sennheiser, Siberia, transfer, travel, vodka
Tweet Back from an exhausting trip to Siberia and London, two conferences – and now down with a nice half cold – half flu thing which has left me tired and aching and spending most of the day sleeping on the sofa in front of typically bad Sunday films. Siberia (Omsk) was fantastic. It was [...]