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We went back to Indigo, the swing boogie boogie bar on saturday night. Most of the time it's a real nightclub, so it had swapped ballroom dancers and Frank Sinatra albums for young people jumping around to (more) eastern european disco-pop. I don't think I've ever laughed so much in a night out, the way people dance here is hilarious! It felt comfortable to be on the outside looking in - we have our British sense of humour and there are always cultural differences to talk about. By the time I walked the girls home it was 3 o'clock, but I had to wake Tamara Aleksandrovna up because she won't let me use my own key.<br />

Ya-ro-slavl.

Jonathan Campion
2006-04-15 17:34:29

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We went back to Indigo, the swing boogie boogie bar on saturday night. Most of the time it's a real nightclub, so it had swapped ballroom dancers and Frank Sinatra albums for young people jumping around to (more) eastern european disco-pop. I don't think I've ever laughed so much in a night out, the way people dance here is hilarious! It felt comfortable to be on the outside looking in - we have our British sense of humour and there are always cultural differences to talk about. By the time I walked the girls home it was 3 o'clock, but I had to wake Tamara Aleksandrovna up because she won't let me use my own key.

Had another lazy sunday afternoon then I met Chris J, Jamie, Laura and Emma at 5 to go to the football. Shinnik Yaroslavl won 3-1, and it was exactly how I'd imagined a Russian match to be like: a run-down concrete stadium, an atmosphere that was cold, noisy and partizan, and away fans throwing fireworks onto the pitch. We tried to learn some of the chants; "Shin-nik! Shin-nik! Shin-nik!" isn't too hard to remember. They are in the top half of the premier league so the standard is pretty high - although I didn't quite believe the man behind me when he said our right-winger is being watched by Chelsea. There wasn't any of the fighting that the fans we met in Aktyor promised us; the four clubs from Moscow are our real enemies, but if our plan works out and we buy a corporate box for the Spartak game we'll be a long way from any trouble!