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I’ll Never Fly Without This Travel Sling Bag That’s Perfect for an Easy Check-in Process

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I’m a minimalist who loves organization, whether that’s using packing cubes to get the best use of luggage space or carrying small yet spacious bags while traveling that can hold all of my essentials and provide easy access to them. That’s especially true when I’m flying with my family of five and juggling carry-ons, personal items, in-flight snacks, and more. 

To help make my air travel and everyday on-the-go activities a little easier, I was able to test Adidas’ Essentials Sling Crossbody Bag , and it’s safe to say I’m officially obsessed. I love traveling with a crossbody bag because it feels secure, and this sling style feels comfortable on my back versus a longer style banging against my hip. And unlike other belt and crossbody bags, it’s surprisingly spacious and ultra-lightweight.

Adidas’ Essentials Sling Crossbody Bag

Inside the bag , I can easily fit my wallet, keys, a water bottle, and a book with room to spare. But my favorite feature is a simple yet genius detail: a separate zip phone compartment that perfectly fits my iPhone. The phone case sits on the adjustable strap that rests on your chest, so it’s extremely easy to access at a moment’s notice. This is super helpful when flying, as I always store my tickets in the airline’s app or my phone wallet. Now, instead of digging through a seemingly bottomless backpack or tote to find my phone, I can quickly unzip the pocket and scan my tickets to get through security and on the plane. Plus, the bag’s adjustable strap that’s connected to the phone is padded, which makes the phone case protected and comfortable.

The bag has a variety of other pockets to help me stay organized while I’m traveling, too. In the front, there is a small zip pocket for stashing other items you want to access quickly, like lip balm, your passport, and IDs, and it has a small hook for attaching keys. The main compartment has its own small mesh zip pocket for storing personal items. Plus, right beneath the bag is a spring snap hook for attaching a small water bottle or other items. Both the inside and outside of the bag are made with a wipeable material in case of any spills or stains.

Adidas Essentials Sling Crossbody Bag

Shoppers praised the sling bag ’s benefits, too, with a high number of reviewers giving it a five-star rating. One customer called it a “great bag for travel” since “it’s super lightweight and has ample storage.” Another reviewer agreed that it’s “little but mighty” with “a lot of compartments” that allow you to “fit a lot.” In fact, it’s the “perfect companion,” according to one person who noted that it’s “small yet roomy.” They shared that it’s “perfect for traveling” because it’s “secure to keep important documents and money” and “good for people that do not want to carry a lot of weight” on their backs.

I love the bag so much that it’s earned a permanent spot at the front of my handbag collection, and I just may grab it in other available colors, including black, fig, and beige, along with the on-sale rose gold shade. Shop it below with more Adidas travel bag styles .

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THE JOURNAL

The journal, unpicking the tangled history of the adidas city series.

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28 July 2021

Adidas City Series Rom, 1960. Photograph courtesy of adidasArchive/Studio Waldeck

This month sees the release of the Malmö Net Spezial , the latest iteration of the long-running adidas City Series – an adidas range featuring individual shoes with discrete designs named after and inspired by international cities. In the technologically advancing, hype-driven world of modern sneakers , for any shoe collection to still even be available while deep into its seventh decade is a remarkable achievement. For it to be relevant, still upgraded and eagerly awaited by collectors is even more so.

Less a conventional pack and more a sprawling family of shoes, the multiple versions of the City Series have given it an almost unrivalled flexibility and longevity. And while they have perhaps been less celebrated and acclaimed than other headline-grabbing models, much of what we now think of as the norm in trainer culture, design and releases was first established by these shoes and the designers behind them.

The story of the City Series goes back as far as the Rom (or Rome), a training shoe released by adidas in the late 1950s in an Italian-style blue-on-white configuration ahead of the 1960 Olympics in the country. “Nothing much really happened with other city releases until about 1968, when the brand changed the name of its Jaguar sneaker to ‘Athen’ for the Mexico Olympics, paying homage to the birthplace of the modern and ancient games,” says Mr Jockey Wyatt, founder of Liverpool’s Transalpino store and label and a longstanding vintage dealer. However, these early, sporadic releases would kickstart a series of shoes in the following years, a variety of sneakers with the same low profile and simple design, each modified and individualised for each great city they namecheck.

“The City Series was not actually created as a series of shoes,” says Mr Bobby Mac on the topic of the somewhat ad hoc roots of the shoe. A trainer collector, consultant and archivist, he has worked on a series of adidas exhibitions in Manchester and Blackburn, the Laces Out trainer expo and the ZX: Roots Of Running book, as well as a volume focused solely on the City Series. (He also had a shoe, the McCarten SPZL , named after him in 2017 as part of adidas’ sought-after Spezial line of new models inspired by deep archive pieces.)

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Adidas City Series Athen, 1985. Photograph courtesy of adidasArchive/Studio Waldeck

“Early 1970s, you had rare shoes like the Kingston and Vienna,” Mac says, detailing the period when the individual shoes fully coalesced into a definable range. “Adidas then produced a shoe to coincide with the 1972 Munich Olympics called the München 72. The Athen were produced alongside other low, flat suede shoes such as Tobacco – named after Tobacco Caye, a tiny island in Belize – plus other low suede shoes like Trimm Star and Mexicana. This was all gearing up to the start of the European city models, the shoes that we now call the City Series: shoes like Brüssel, Malmö, Stockholm, Bern, Dublin and Berlin to name a few.”

Mac points out how exotic they would have looked to UK consumers at the time compared to the rest of the market. “These shoes had clashing colourways, bright orange leather stripes on velvety black suede, yellow on blue, blue on yellow, orange on blue, greens, reds and so on. They would have really stood out in a sports and leisure shop amid the brown shoes, cricket bats and hockey sticks.”

Back then, most brands were still largely thinking of their sports shoes purely in terms of athletic function and expanding into mass production. Meanwhile, adidas were early on the trends which have come to dominate footwear to the present day – individualisation, localisation and limited availability. “It was one of the first series that used localisation as the key theme,” says Mr Joss Long, sneaker buyer at MR PORTER. “It gave communities and cultures a shoe that was truly theirs, representing their city in name and aesthetic.”

From early on, the shoes were associated with discerning football casuals, especially in the north of England. “The first City Series shoe worn by terrace lads would have been the München with the Trimm Trab sole unit, which were originally brought back to these shores when football fans headed into Europe following their teams,” says Wyatt.

Adidas City Series Vienna, 1964. Photograph courtesy of adidasArchive/Studio Waldeck

Other collectors point to the Stockholm and Montreal as key shoes in their areas at the time. Mr Dave Hewitson of the 80s Casuals label and author of The Liverpool Boys Are In Town highlights how the recession gripping Britain in the early 1980s meant sports retailers commonly favoured cheaper adidas models such as the Mamba and Nastase. Young British football fans were only alerted to the existence of more expensive and hard-to-find models by trips to European fixtures (specifically Liverpool’s clash with Bayern Munich in 1981, which took thousands of English fans direct to the home of adidas).

The München quickly became a sought-after, more elitist alternative to the cheaper, more readily available models in the UK. “We did not know about a European or a North American ‘City Series’ of trainers,” says Hewitson of the time. “No internet, no books on the subject and no advertisements on TV meant we bought what we liked. We made our own choices and the München just seemed to fit in with that period.”

Where they can still be found, these original models have proved to be highly coveted collectors’ items. “As a vintage retailer, the main shoe I would always look out for from a business point of view would be the Dublin, Stockholm and Brussels designs,” says Wyatt.

One thing that becomes quickly clear when researching the City Series is how occluded its history is. In itself, this is not so unusual – many fashion and athletic brands have patchy archives and myths build up around them based on half-memories, blurred photographs and second-hand reports. But in this case, the diffuse nature of the range and adidas’ historic habit of using localised and semi-autonomous production centres makes the problem especially acute.

Adidas City Series Dublin, 1980. Photograph courtesy of adidasArchive/Studio Waldeck

Mr Peter O’Toole is an English illustrator who has worked extensively with adidas (even co-producing a signature shoe, the Quotoole, alongside esteemed German adidas collector Quote in 2014), and who produced a graphic print in 2011 cataloguing and displaying the entire City Series – and featuring a staggering 98 different shoes. Talking about the scale of the project quickly gives a glimpse of the complexity of the series’ history.

“There are variants to certain models, like the Hamburg with the light and dark soles, the Wien Mark II which had a different toe box to the original. The Bern Mark II had a completely different sole unit. Also you had shoes that were manufactured in different countries and had the same name as existing City models but were completely different,” O’Toole says.

Further complicating things, a later series of City shoes were built around the identities of North American cities, utilising a more classic running-shoe profile. The City Series now spanned not just cities and continents, but entire sports and styles.

But, in the big picture sense, the City Series shines. When considered in its totality, the line’s cohesive identity reveals itself more easily than when fixating on the specifics of individual models: most model’s prioritise quality of materials over visible technical flourishes, pair colourways and stripe tones with a graphic designer’s exacting sensibility and have detailed finishes which reward close examination (for example, the shaggy suede of the Hamburg or the textured sole of the London).

While the shoes often feel more like cousins than direct descendants of one another, the shared metropolitan, modernist aesthetic distinguishes them and partly explains why they’ve remained a constant building block of outfits for men who like understated, but carefully considered style.

Adidas City Series Hamburg, 1982. Photograph courtesy of adidasArchive/Studio Waldeck

The City Series’ ongoing relevance has been ensured by a particularly astute reissue programme over the past decade or so. “I remember, in around 2008, there was a resurgence in interest in the City Series with the younger generation,” says O’Toole. “For the first time, I saw reissue trainers go for more money than the original models and I knew something had changed.”

Wyatt saw similar shifts taking place from the early 2000s onwards: “The City Series reissues from then became very popular with football lads who were not old enough to be around in the early 1980s,” he says.

Rather than just a straight reissue, some City shoes have also been reinterpreted: as part of the Spezial series, with the original Montreal rebirthed as the Hochelaga; a Mundial and Size collaboration in 2020 produced the Liverpool, Córdoba and Havana; a Tricolour-coloured Paris appeared in limited numbers in 2012 to mark a store opening in the French capital, before it reappeared in the summer of 2020 more widely.

For City Series enthusiasts, this seems to be a golden period. Mac points to a marked increase in the quality of reissues and remodels currently available. “I think that City models have never been made so good,” he claims. “If you look at Wien, Amsterdam, Napoli, Torino and even the niche Frankfurt, they were all strong reissues. Since the start of Spezial in 2014, City Series have been stepped up.”

But as much as this build quality has elevated the shoe’s standing – and despite the multifarious colourways, finishes, sole variations and hidden details – a large part of the City Series’ longevity comes down to its unflashy nature. “It’s the simple, iconic design,” says O’Toole.

“I think the answer is its simplicity,” says Mac. “It’s not a technical shoe and this has always been reflected in the price point, its clashing colours, its gum sole and the ability to dress from the feet up. I know many, many lads who have dressed for the day around whatever pair of City trainers they’ve picked out.”

In a market swamped by novelty, hype and innovation, this in itself becomes a unique selling point. As Mac concludes: “They can be matched with anything.” And long may they continue to be so.

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Last week, adidas Originals opened its first ever flagship store in Russia. One step inside the newly unveiled shop—located in the historic city of Moscow—and visitors will be in awe of the interior decor which takes its design cues from the ’60s and ’70s. Imbuing the layout of a Russian living room, the store is fitted with square chairs, classic carpets with vibrant patterns, as well as bespoke furniture made with Soviet modern style in mind.

“The display of art objects by four young Moscow based creatives who came up with unique pieces of art inspired by their beloved city conveys the versatility of the new adidas Originals store that is to become a place of the most important launches, workshops, exhibitions, and installations and will house the brightest collections and the most significant collaborations as well as the limited-edition sneaker packs,” said adidas to HYPEBEAST.

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Colourway: Core Black, Orange & EQT Yellow    Style Code:  CQ2777

A special edition 350 release from Adidas Originals in the build up to the World Cup this special edition 'Moscow City Pack' commemorates the Luzhniki Stadium, the home of Russian Football. Simple but effective with a Core Black leather upper that is inspired by the classic silhouette from the Adidas archives, this iteration of the much loved classic combines the Orange and Yellow colours of the iconic stadium creating a versatile and easy to wear trainer that is lightweight and breathable. Finished is Gold MOSKVA lettering in the Cyrillic alphabet (Moscow) to the sidewall to commemorate the edition this 350 is defiantly one for your collection or for everyday wear over the coming months.

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Travel Itinerary For One Week in Moscow: The Best of Moscow!

I just got back from one week in Moscow. And, as you might have already guessed, it was a mind-boggling experience. It was not my first trip to the Russian capital. But I hardly ever got enough time to explore this sprawling city. Visiting places for business rarely leaves enough time for sightseeing. I think that if you’ve got one week in Russia, you can also consider splitting your time between its largest cities (i.e. Saint Petersburg ) to get the most out of your trip. Seven days will let you see the majority of the main sights and go beyond just scratching the surface. In this post, I’m going to share with you my idea of the perfect travel itinerary for one week in Moscow.

Moscow is perhaps both the business and cultural hub of Russia. There is a lot more to see here than just the Kremlin and Saint Basil’s Cathedral. Centuries-old churches with onion-shaped domes dotted around the city are in stark contrast with newly completed impressive skyscrapers of Moscow City dominating the skyline. I spent a lot of time thinking about my Moscow itinerary before I left. And this city lived up to all of my expectations.

Travel Itinerary For One Week in Moscow

Day 1 – red square and the kremlin.

Metro Station: Okhotny Ryad on Red Line.

No trip to Moscow would be complete without seeing its main attraction. The Red Square is just a stone’s throw away from several metro stations. It is home to some of the most impressive architectural masterpieces in the city. The first thing you’ll probably notice after entering it and passing vendors selling weird fur hats is the fairytale-like looking Saint Basil’s Cathedral. It was built to commemorate one of the major victories of Ivan the Terrible. I once spent 20 minutes gazing at it, trying to find the perfect angle to snap it. It was easier said than done because of the hordes of locals and tourists.

As you continue strolling around Red Square, there’s no way you can miss Gum. It was widely known as the main department store during the Soviet Era. Now this large (yet historic) shopping mall is filled with expensive boutiques, pricey eateries, etc. During my trip to Moscow, I was on a tight budget. So I only took a retro-style stroll in Gum to get a rare glimpse of a place where Soviet leaders used to grocery shop and buy their stuff. In case you want some modern shopping experience, head to the Okhotny Ryad Shopping Center with stores like New Yorker, Zara, and Adidas.

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To continue this Moscow itinerary, next you may want to go inside the Kremlin walls. This is the center of Russian political power and the president’s official residence. If you’re planning to pay Kremlin a visit do your best to visit Ivan the Great Bell Tower as well. Go there as early as possible to avoid crowds and get an incredible bird’s-eye view. There are a couple of museums that are available during designated visiting hours. Make sure to book your ticket online and avoid lines.

Day 2 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the Arbat Street

Metro Station: Kropotkinskaya on Red Line

As soon as you start creating a Moscow itinerary for your second day, you’ll discover that there are plenty of metro stations that are much closer to certain sites. Depending on your route, take a closer look at the metro map to pick the closest.

The white marble walls of Christ the Saviour Cathedral are awe-inspiring. As you approach this tallest Orthodox Christian church, you may notice the bronze sculptures, magnificent arches, and cupolas that were created to commemorate Russia’s victory against Napoleon.

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Unfortunately, the current Cathedral is a replica, since original was blown to bits in 1931 by the Soviet government. The new cathedral basically follows the original design, but they have added some new elements such as marble high reliefs.

Home to some precious collection of artworks, in Tretyakov Gallery you can find more than 150,000 of works spanning centuries of artistic endeavor. Originally a privately owned gallery, it now has become one of the largest museums in Russia. The Gallery is often considered essential to visit. But I have encountered a lot of locals who have never been there.

Famous for its souvenirs, musicians, and theaters, Arbat street is among the few in Moscow that were turned into pedestrian zones. Arbat street is usually very busy with tourists and locals alike. My local friend once called it the oldest street in Moscow dating back to 1493. It is a kilometer long walking street filled with fancy gift shops, small cozy restaurants, lots of cute cafes, and street artists. It is closed to any vehicular traffic, so you can easily stroll it with kids.

Day 3 – Moscow River Boat Ride, Poklonnaya Hill Victory Park, the Moscow City

Metro Station: Kievskaya and Park Pobedy on Dark Blue Line / Vystavochnaya on Light Blue Line

Voyaging along the Moscow River is definitely one of the best ways to catch a glimpse of the city and see the attractions from a bit different perspective. Depending on your Moscow itinerary, travel budget and the time of the year, there are various types of boats available. In the summer there is no shortage of boats, and you’ll be spoiled for choice.

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If you find yourself in Moscow during the winter months, I’d recommend going with Radisson boat cruise. These are often more expensive (yet comfy). They offer refreshments like tea, coffee, hot chocolate, and, of course, alcoholic drinks. Prices may vary but mostly depend on your food and drink selection. Find their main pier near the opulent Ukraine hotel . The hotel is one of the “Seven Sisters”, so if you’re into the charm of Stalinist architecture don’t miss a chance to stay there.

The area near Poklonnaya Hill has the closest relation to the country’s recent past. The memorial complex was completed in the mid-1990s to commemorate the Victory and WW2 casualties. Also known as the Great Patriotic War Museum, activities here include indoor attractions while the grounds around host an open-air museum with old tanks and other vehicles used on the battlefield.

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The hallmark of the memorial complex and the first thing you see as you exit metro is the statue of Nike mounted to its column. This is a very impressive Obelisk with a statue of Saint George slaying the dragon at its base.

Maybe not as impressive as Shanghai’s Oriental Pearl Tower , the skyscrapers of the Moscow City (otherwise known as Moscow International Business Center) are so drastically different from dull Soviet architecture. With 239 meters and 60 floors, the Empire Tower is the seventh highest building in the business district.

The observation deck occupies 56 floor from where you have some panoramic views of the city. I loved the view in the direction of Moscow State University and Luzhniki stadium as well to the other side with residential quarters. The entrance fee is pricey, but if you’re want to get a bird’s eye view, the skyscraper is one of the best places for doing just that.

Day 4 – VDNKh, Worker and Collective Farm Woman Monument, The Ostankino TV Tower

Metro Station: VDNKh on Orange Line

VDNKh is one of my favorite attractions in Moscow. The weird abbreviation actually stands for Russian vystavka dostizheniy narodnogo khozyaystva (Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy). With more than 200 buildings and 30 pavilions on the grounds, VDNKh serves as an open-air museum. You can easily spend a full day here since the park occupies a very large area.

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First, there are pavilions that used to showcase different cultures the USSR was made of. Additionally, there is a number of shopping pavilions, as well as Moskvarium (an Oceanarium) that features a variety of marine species. VDNKh is a popular venue for events and fairs. There is always something going on, so I’d recommend checking their website if you want to see some particular exhibition.

A stone’s throw away from VDNKh there is a very distinctive 25-meters high monument. Originally built in 1937 for the world fair in Paris, the hulking figures of men and women holding a hammer and a sickle represent the Soviet idea of united workers and farmers. It doesn’t take much time to see the monument, but visiting it gives some idea of the Soviet Union’s grandiose aspirations.

I have a thing for tall buildings. So to continue my travel itinerary for one week in Moscow I decided to climb the fourth highest TV tower in the world. This iconic 540m tower is a fixture of the skyline. You can see it virtually from everywhere in Moscow, and this is where you can get the best panoramic views (yep, even better than Empire skyscraper).

Parts of the floor are made of tempered glass, so it can be quite scary to exit the elevator. But trust me, as you start observing buildings and cars below, you won’t want to leave. There is only a limited number of tickets per day, so you may want to book online. Insider tip: the first tour is cheaper, you can save up to $10 if go there early.

Day 5 – A Tour To Moscow Manor Houses

Metro Station: Kolomenskoye, Tsaritsyno on Dark Green Line / Kuskovo on Purple Line

I love visiting the manor houses and palaces in Moscow. These opulent buildings were generally built to house Russian aristocratic families and monarchs. Houses tend to be rather grand affairs with impressive architecture. And, depending on the whims of the owners, some form of a landscaped garden.

During the early part of the 20th century though, many of Russia’s aristocratic families (including the family of the last emperor) ended up being killed or moving abroad . Their manor houses were nationalized. Some time later (after the fall of the USSR) these were open to the public. It means that today a great many of Moscow’s finest manor houses and palaces are open for touring.

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There are 20 manor houses scattered throughout the city and more than 25 in the area around. But not all of them easily accessible and exploring them often takes a lot of time. I’d recommend focusing on three most popular estates in Moscow that are some 30-minute metro ride away from Kremlin.

Sandwiched between the Moscow River and the Andropov Avenue, Kolomenskoye is a UNESCO site that became a public park in the 1920’s. Once a former royal estate, now it is one of the most tranquil parks in the city with gorgeous views. The Ascension Church, The White Column, and the grounds are a truly grand place to visit.

You could easily spend a full day here, exploring a traditional Russian village (that is, in fact, a market), picnicking by the river, enjoying the Eastern Orthodox church architecture, hiking the grounds as well as and wandering the park and gardens with wildflower meadows, apple orchards, and birch and maple groves. The estate museum showcases Russian nature at its finest year-round.

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If my travel itinerary for one week in Moscow was a family tree, Tsaritsyno Park would probably be the crazy uncle that no-one talks about. It’s a large park in the south of the city of mind-boggling proportions, unbelievable in so many ways, and yet most travelers have never heard of it.

The palace was supposed to be a summer home for Empress Catherine the Great. But since the construction didn’t meet with her approval the palace was abandoned. Since the early 1990’s the palace, the pond, and the grounds have been undergoing renovations. The entire complex is now looking brighter and more elaborately decorated than at possibly any other time during its history. Like most parks in Moscow, you can visit Tsaritsyno free of charge, but there is a small fee if you want to visit the palace.

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Last, but by no means least on my Moscow itinerary is Kuskovo Park . This is definitely an off-the-beaten-path place. While it is not easily accessible, you will be rewarded with a lack of crowds. This 18th-century summer country house of the Sheremetev family was one of the first summer country estates of the Russian nobility. And when you visit you’ll quickly realize why locals love this park.

Like many other estates, Kuskovo has just been renovated. So there are lovely French formal garden, a grotto, and the Dutch house to explore. Make sure to plan your itinerary well because the estate is some way from a metro station.

Day 6 – Explore the Golden Ring

Creating the Moscow itinerary may keep you busy for days with the seemingly endless amount of things to do. Visiting the so-called Golden Ring is like stepping back in time. Golden Ring is a “theme route” devised by promotion-minded journalist and writer Yuri Bychkov.

Having started in Moscow the route will take you through a number of historical cities. It now includes Suzdal, Vladimir, Kostroma, Yaroslavl and Sergiev Posad. All these awe-inspiring towns have their own smaller kremlins and feature dramatic churches with onion-shaped domes, tranquil residential areas, and other architectural landmarks.

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I only visited two out of eight cities included on the route. It is a no-brainer that Sergiev Posad is the nearest and the easiest city to see on a day trip from Moscow. That being said, you can explore its main attractions in just one day. Located some 70 km north-east of the Russian capital, this tiny and overlooked town is home to Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, UNESCO Site.

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Sergiev Posad is often described as being at the heart of Russian spiritual life. So it is uncommon to see the crowds of Russian pilgrims showing a deep reverence for their religion. If you’re traveling independently and using public transport, you can reach Sergiev Posad by bus (departs from VDNKh) or by suburban commuter train from Yaroslavskaya Railway Station (Bahnhof). It takes about one and a half hours to reach the town.

Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is a great place to get a glimpse of filling and warming Russian lunch, specifically at the “ Gostevaya Izba ” restaurant. Try the duck breast, hearty potato and vegetables, and the awesome Napoleon cake.

Day 7 – Gorky Park, Izmailovo Kremlin, Patriarch’s Ponds

Metro Station: Park Kultury or Oktyabrskaya on Circle Line / Partizanskaya on Dark Blue Line / Pushkinskaya on Dark Green Line

Gorky Park is in the heart of Moscow. It offers many different types of outdoor activities, such as dancing, cycling, skateboarding, walking, jogging, and anything else you can do in a park. Named after Maxim Gorky, this sprawling and lovely park is where locals go on a picnic, relax and enjoy free yoga classes. It’s a popular place to bike around, and there is a Muzeon Art Park not far from here. A dynamic location with a younger vibe. There is also a pier, so you can take a cruise along the river too.

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The Kremlin in Izmailovo is by no means like the one you can find near the Red Square. Originally built for decorative purposes, it now features the Vernissage flea market and a number of frequent fairs, exhibitions, and conferences. Every weekend, there’s a giant flea market in Izmailovo, where dozens of stalls sell Soviet propaganda crap, Russian nesting dolls, vinyl records, jewelry and just about any object you can imagine. Go early in the morning if you want to beat the crowds.

All the Bulgakov’s fans should pay a visit to Patriarch’s Ponds (yup, that is plural). With a lovely small city park and the only one (!) pond in the middle, the location is where the opening scene of Bulgakov’s novel Master and Margarita was set. The novel is centered around a visit by Devil to the atheistic Soviet Union is considered by many critics to be one of the best novels of the 20th century. I spent great two hours strolling the nearby streets and having lunch in the hipster cafe.

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To conclude, Moscow is a safe city to visit. I have never had a problem with getting around and most locals are really friendly once they know you’re a foreigner. Moscow has undergone some serious reconstruction over the last few years. So you can expect some places to be completely different. I hope my one week Moscow itinerary was helpful! If you have less time, say 4 days or 5 days, I would cut out day 6 and day 7. You could save the Golden Ring for a separate trip entirely as there’s lots to see!

What are your thoughts on this one week Moscow itinerary? Are you excited about your first time in the city? Let me know in the comments below!

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24 comments.

Ann Snook-Moreau

Moscow looks so beautiful and historic! Thanks for including public transit information for those of us who don’t like to rent cars.

MindTheTravel

Yup, that is me 🙂 Rarely rent + stick to the metro = Full wallet!

Mariella Blago

Looks like you had loads of fun! Well done. Also great value post for travel lovers.

Thanks, Mariella!

I have always wanted to go to Russia, especially Moscow. These sights look absolutely beautiful to see and there is so much history there!

Agree! Moscow is a thousand-year-old city and there is definitely something for everyone.

Tara Pittman

Those are amazing buildings. Looks like a place that would be amazing to visit.

Adriana Lopez

Never been to Moscow or Russia but my family has. Many great spots and a lot of culture. Your itinerary sounds fantastic and covers a lot despite it is only a short period of time.

What was their favourite thing about Russia?

Gladys Parker

I know very little about Moscow or Russia for the\at matter. I do know I would have to see the Red Square and all of its exquisite architectural masterpieces. Also the CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR. Thanks for shedding some light on visiting Moscow.

Thanks for swinging by! The Red Square is a great starting point, but there way too many places and things to discover aside from it!

Ruthy @ Percolate Kitchen

You are making me so jealous!! I’ve always wanted to see Russia.

Moscow is in my bucket list, I don’t know when I can visit there, your post is really useful. As a culture rich place we need to spend at least week.

DANA GUTKOWSKI

Looks like you had a great trip! Thanks for all the great info! I’ve never been in to Russia, but this post makes me wanna go now!

Wow this is amazing! Moscow is on my bucket list – such an amazing place to visit I can imagine! I can’t wait to go there one day!

The building on the second picture looks familiar. I keep seeing that on TV.

Reesa Lewandowski

What beautiful moments! I always wish I had the personality to travel more like this!

Perfect itinerary for spending a week in Moscow! So many places to visit and it looks like you had a wonderful time. I would love to climb that tower. The views I am sure must have been amazing!

I was lucky enough to see the skyline of Moscow from this TV Tower and it is definitely mind-blowing.

Chelsea Pearl

Moscow is definitely up there on my travel bucket list. So much history and iconic architecture!

Thumbs up! 🙂

Blair Villanueva

OMG I dream to visit Moscow someday! Hope the visa processing would be okay (and become more affordable) so I could pursue my dream trip!

Yup, visa processing is the major downside! Agree! Time and the money consuming process…

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