Gorky Park - the name alone evokes images of cold war era spy novels with clandestine operations and surreptitious meetings. Our visit to Gorky Park (Central Park) was a bit less exciting, but quite pleasant nonetheless. On a hot Sunday afternoon, we ventured downhill and east of town to find this large and well attended venue. Part amusement park, and part strolling park, there was plenty of people watching to be had. Kids were plentiful - as were doting parents. It looked as if the lakes had been drained for a few years - so that was too bad. But the fortune telling parakeets were quite the sight. And what a treat to watch a movie in Russian - especially one that did not take much translation. We saw Wall-E (or, as locally pronounced, Vall-E.) While we didn't understand all of the finer points, we caught the gist of the movie. And that is probably true of our stay in Kazakhstan so far. We're becoming comfortable in Almaty and beginning to understand much more about what we are seeing.
Gorky Park - the name alone evokes images of cold war era spy novels with clandestine operations and surreptitious meetings. Our visit to Gorky Park (Central Park) was a bit less exciting, but quite pleasant nonetheless. On a hot Sunday afternoon, we ventured downhill and east of town to find this large and well attended venue. Part amusement park, and part strolling park, there was plenty of people watching to be had. Kids were plentiful - as were doting parents. It looked as if the lakes had been drained for a few years - so that was too bad. But the fortune telling parakeets were quite the sight. And what a treat to watch a movie in Russian - especially one that did not take much translation. We saw Wall-E (or, as locally pronounced, Vall-E.) While we didn't understand all of the finer points, we caught the gist of the movie. And that is probably true of our stay in Kazakhstan so far. We're becoming comfortable in Almaty and beginning to understand much more about what we are seeing.
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This is so much fun to read -- what adventurers you and Joyce are!
Cynthia
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