Going there on business next week, and the few threads about Moscow that we have are not very thorough.
I was able to find out a few names of bars where supposedly forum members have had luck - Papa's Place, Che Bar, Real McCoy, Dolls&Pistols.
I looked them up on the map and they seem to be clustered in a place about 5km from the hotel I will be staying. The hotel was described to me as being downtown, and it does look it on the map - but I guess the city is so huge that anything within 5km counts as "nearby".
Maybe I'll walk around the hotel at nights and see where the action is. Or I'll take the metro to the place where these bars are.
I hope to be able to devote at least a few nights to gaming, and will bust out a datasheet when I come back. Day game will not be in the program, because I will be working.
In the meantime, if you have any tips for me, please share.
For the record, I speak conversational Russian and have many Russian notches on my belt, so I'll be looking to mix in with the locals - hopefully avoid expat places where gold-diggers go looking for oil&gas executives.
I was able to find out a few names of bars where supposedly forum members have had luck - Papa's Place, Che Bar, Real McCoy, Dolls&Pistols.
I looked them up on the map and they seem to be clustered in a place about 5km from the hotel I will be staying. The hotel was described to me as being downtown, and it does look it on the map - but I guess the city is so huge that anything within 5km counts as "nearby".
Maybe I'll walk around the hotel at nights and see where the action is. Or I'll take the metro to the place where these bars are.
I hope to be able to devote at least a few nights to gaming, and will bust out a datasheet when I come back. Day game will not be in the program, because I will be working.
In the meantime, if you have any tips for me, please share.
For the record, I speak conversational Russian and have many Russian notches on my belt, so I'll be looking to mix in with the locals - hopefully avoid expat places where gold-diggers go looking for oil&gas executives.