Well, after all that I wrote while traveling, I hadn’t planned on posting again for at least a little while. But I must say, today we did something that can be deemed note-worthy. (And in all honesty, this may not actually be blog worthy. It may just be my fascination with something resembling a store at home. Or it may be the fact that I have to write a three page paper in Russian for a class on Monday and I’m just procrastinating like it’s my job. Who knows?)
Today, we went to Globus, the Russian version of Walmart. It was spectacular! And huge…maybe about three or four times the size of a Super Walmart. And it has its own bus (that’s free. Woot!) that takes you to and from the store if you want. And it has everything you could ever want! And it’s fairly cheap. And I think I’m getting a little too excited here.
According to Wikipedia, Globus is a “hypermarket,” meaning that it is a store that is a supermarket and a department store combined into one. (Also, I think it is a Czech-based company, but I’m not entirely sure.) There were candy isles, liquor isles (not next to each other, although that would have been a party), pasta isles, whole sections devoted to sausage, fish, clothing, cleaning supplies, technology, everything! It was amazing. And it was crowded! Oh my God, was it crowded! Remember when I said that the Hermitage was so crowded when we were there that it was hard to move around? Yeah, try doing that with a cart!
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| Here's to you, Globus, for putting everything we could ever need in one place. |
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