Three-day excursion tour for guests from England to the Kremlin, the capital's metro and VDNKh

We receive a request for three excursions for two guests from England: Diana and Miso. Diana is half Georgian, formerly a Muscovite, and has been successfully living in London for 17 years. Miso is her friend, an Englishman who has never been to Moscow before. Diana sometimes comes to Moscow to visit her mother, but she hasn’t been here everywhere and doesn’t remember much, so she decided to introduce her friend to the capital by contacting us.

We chose a free English-speaking guide from our team, received an advance payment from the customer, decided on the theme, and on the appointed day, Miso and Diana began their multi-day excursion trip with us in English.

Since Miso had never been to Moscow before, we decided to start from the center itself. On the first day, the guide took the tourists to the Kremlin, the Armory, and then walked a little around the city.

The customers were impressed, but the guest from England was most delighted with the tour of the Moscow metro planned for the second day. More precisely, at first he was skeptical about the Moscow subway, since he believed that there was nothing to see in the metro. But in the end I was delighted with how diverse and elegant the Moscow metro stations are. I was surprised that they are not located as deep as the stations in London. He said that Muscovites go down to the metro on one escalator, but for them it is at a depth of three escalator tiers. He was interested to know that natural and very beautiful stones were used in the interiors of many Moscow stations. Miso asked the guide several times, “Does every subway station have its own design?” and constantly repeated: “Amazing!” The guide happily answered all the foreigner’s questions and showed Diana and Miso both stations built in Soviet times and modern ones: CSKA, etc.. The Englishman said that, of course, he was pleasantly surprised, since in London the stations are mostly made of plastic and without any special ornaments, whereas the Moscow metro has stone mosaics, statues, paintings, chandeliers, and stucco. We are not exaggerating when we say that the guest could not stop admiring this beauty.

On the third day of individual excursions, it was decided to take Diana and Miso to VDNKh. The exhibition impressed both Miso and Diana, since she, a former Muscovite, had never been to VDNKh before. The guide took the foreigners to the Armenian pavilion, where she told them about national dishes, which were included in the UNESCO intangible heritage in 2014.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that in 2023, personal guide Elena was among the finalists in the nomination “Tour Guides” of the largest competition for professionals “Moscow Masters” with a project of a gastronomic excursion around VDNKh. VDNKh itself has been very powerfully transformed and has been flourishing since 2014, you need to walk there for several days to see and try everything.

Then the guide and tourists went to an eastern teahouse and restaurant in Uzbekistan. We finished our viewing at the USSR fast food stall and tried donuts prepared according to old recipes. It turned out to be a kind of gastronomic tour of VDNKh.

At the end of the route, the guide led the foreign couple to a model of Moscow, where Diana began to look for the house where she lived before moving to England.