Photos, as promised.

Photos, as promised. Above, a triumphant American stands before the most well-known Russian icon which, until the day this photo was taken, he always assumed was the Kremlin. It's not, by the way; "The" Kremlin is actually a walled complex adjoining Red Square, which this cathedral, St. Basil's, stands next to. Other interesting facts: "Kremlin" is a generic word like "castle" and refers to any walled fortress. Red Square was not called "red" because it is red or because of communist ties: the old Russian word for beautiful was very near the Russian word for red... "krasivy" vs. "krasiny"... and thus confusion...

This is a few months old. There is a bar in Malaga, Spain, down some random alley, named this. I thought of my roommates in Naples last year at the sight of this.

This museum stands next to Kiek In De Kok tower in Tallinn, Estonia. I should've expected what I got, I guess.

You have one guess where this photo was taken.

Finally, in this random smattering of photos from the past months... a photo of the first few people who arrived at my birthday party. As I think I blogged before, we were at the La Strada Italian restauarant in St. Petersburg, Russia. I have photos of the explosive cake and many more people in red noses and party hats. Many more photos to come. Today we hit Riga, Latvia, which to my surprise has nothing to do with Dr. Doom. Last night I sang loungy tunes at an ill-conceived "James Bond" party night in one of the lounges.

As we tend to say around here, "That's not six-star."