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If you’re planning a visit to Moscow any time soon and happen to be a fan of musicals (as I certainly am), Count Orlov is the perfect choice for a night out! First of all, the music is really g...

https://tinyexpats.com/2016/02/17/count-orlov-musical-a-wonderful-night-out-in-moscow/

With all the news about our CZ-UK relocation, I still didn’t get around to telling you about our winter holidays in Moscow! One of the highlights of our visit was the Red Square Christmas mark...

https://tinyexpats.com/2016/02/12/going-to-the-red-square-with-kids/

If it is already so cold outside, I would rather prefer for it to be snowing as well, wouldn’t you? As we don’t have any snow yet, I thought, I would publish this older post for Throw Back Th...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/26/bad-hofgestein/

Today I was reminded by a helpful Facebook feature about an interesting day out that happened 2 years ago in Moscow. A friend of mine invited me to check out an exhibition hosted by the State His...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/25/day-out-in-moscow-thracian-gold-and-retro-soviet-cars/

Tsaritsyno is a royal estate in Moscow, grand place with a complicated fate. It is known from the 16th century, when it belonged to Tsaritsa Irina, sister of Tsar Boris Godunov. The estate change...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/11/23/tsaritsyno-imperial-court-that-never-existed/

Every time we relocated (from UK – to Germany – to China – to Russia – to Czech Republic) we were glad we were doing it. Taking the next step, continuing our journey, pursuing new goals. ...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/08/11/weeks-before-relocation-revisiting-all-the-favourite-places/

Here we come to the final part of the story about my trip to London, quite importantly – a solo trip, as my tiny expats stayed back home with their daddy. If you missed the rest of the story, y...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/08/10/solo-trip-to-london-part-4-elegant-brunch-ladies-afternoon/

Clara Wiggins, author of the Expat Partner’s Survival Guide, just published my guest post about the first journey of our oldest daughter – Hambrug to Shanghai via Dubai. If you would like to ...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/08/07/first-journey-of-a-tiny-expat/

July happened to be a crazy month for us – my trip to London, family trip to Moscow, house hunting, applying for schools, etc etc.. So I’m just getting around to continuing my story about tha...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/07/31/solo-trip-to-london-part-3-cabaret-in-camden-town/

I haven’t been blogging for quite some time (and even missed the scheduled Show Your World round up date – will deal with it asap!), because two weeks ago we suddenly decided to book tickets ...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/07/24/a-totally-unplanned-week-in-moscow-with-tiny-expats-their-grandmothers-uncles-aunts-cousins-and-2-german-shepherds-and-how-we-survived-it/

Apart from having an amazing time with my friends in London, I also looked forward to three nights of blissful uninterrupted sleep (although, going to bed early was out of the question, nobody ex...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/07/11/solo-trip-to-london-part-2-afternoon-in-english-countryside/

I’ve been writing a lot about our travels with tiny expats, but the last weekend was a solo occasion for me. For the first time since actually having kids, I left them at home for a couple of d...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/07/09/solo-trip-from-cz-to-london-part-1/

This story will take you back to 2008, but I’m pretty sure that the situation would not have changed much, if it took place in the present. During that year, my husband and I worked on a projec...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/06/08/great-wall-of-china-and-sightseeing-during-october-holidays/

My husband and I lived in Hamburg, Germany, for 4 years and that allowed us to visit our friends in Holland more often than usual. A girl we studied with married a Dutch guy; at first they lived ...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/05/11/a-weekend-in-a-city-of-cycling-groningen/

Yes, yes, at the time, when we visited Hong Kong Disneyland, we still had only one tiny expat on our hands, the second one waiting until our relocation to Moscow to make her appearance. You might...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/04/13/hk-disneyland-with-a-tiny-expat-and-the-lessons-learnt/

A year ago, in March 2014, we visited Kolomenskoe in Moscow and, I thought, this place has to be shown in my Travel Diary series. Previously, a favourite countryside retreat of Russian grand prin...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/03/10/russian-royal-estate-kolomenskoye-moscow/

This is my first post for the Essence of Reminiscence blogging event, started by The Confused Young Adult. Her prompt for today was That Unforgettable Journey and I decided that I would tell you...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/02/16/essence-of-reminiscence-that-unforgettable-journey-to-pamukkale/

For this month’s Travel Diary entry, I decided to choose a story about our stay in Shanghai during the Spring Festival as the Lunar New Year’s Day is already coming up on the 19th of February...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/02/09/our-first-spring-festival-in-shanghai/

Today’s assignment for Blogging 101 was to write a post in a different style to the usual. I thought of photos and immediately Crimea came to my mind. It’s one of my favourite places ever. We...

https://tinyexpats.com/2015/01/22/crimea-for-blogging-101/