Restaurant with Hungarian menu too

We wanted to try traditional Russian food and the hotel's receptionist recommended a nice little restaurant nearby. We visited it and it was great.
The whole thing looked like a little cottage. The waiters were wearing some traditional costume and we got good service.
He asked where we are from and brought a Hungarian menu. They really had one, actually they had a shelf with a whole lot of menus on different languages. I was amazed.
We tried traditional food:
Pirog for appetizer, this is stuffed with different things like cabbage, meat or fish.

Then Borsch, this is a beetroor soup with a lot of other things even beans. I liked it, they served a "you shall not kiss any more today combo kit" including garlic, leek, bread with some garlic taste and bacon.





As a main course I tried pelmeny which is meat in noodles. They served it with sour cream, it was ok, but enough once.





And we drank mors, which is some kind of fruit juce. One of them tasted a bit like that green drink that I tried in Yerevan last year.



After eating, we walked to the Red Square. It is beautiful. Sadly it was mostly fenced off due to tomorrow's things, (1st of May)

Arrival and Metro

We just arrived to the hotel, where we spend a night before the beginning of the competition. The room is great, fancy and everything is all right. We are leaving soon to have dinner and walk a bit in the city. Oh, and the hotel is in downtown, near the Polyanka metro station.

Let's see from the beginning of today's trip. We met at Budapest Airport at 11 am, checked in and went through the security check. I was looking forward to visit the MasterCard lounge and hungry by the way. Sadly they rejected me there, I need a higher level MasterCard to go there. Too bad, I had to eat my sandwich, that I brought from home, at the airport already.

We flew with Aeroflot, the Russian Airlines. It was not a too long flight, but convinient and they gave us a small and delicous sandwich.
The airport is built together with a train station, where we went on foot and we did not have to go through another security check. I appreciated that.
The train was great, it reminded me of a German train. Mostly because of its quality and comfort. Only the view from it was not like in Germany. See the photos.

The train arrived near a metro station, where we bought 24 hour public transport cards and went on with the metro. The Moscow metro system is awesome. 11 lines, one of them is a circle, which goes around the city, connecting all the lines. So all stations are accessable from any other one with maximum 2 transfers. The stations are beautyful and big, or at least bigger than the ones in Budapest. Oh and another important detail, that the way between the stops is much longer than at home. I mean from Nyugati the next stop could be Ferenciek tere with this length of path between stations.

Proloque, Mendeleev 2016

This year's Mendeleev Olympiad is starting soon, it will be held in Moscow. I'm a member of the Hungarian team, and as last year, I will write this blog about my experiences.

We already have the lab coats and the T-shirts with the logos.
I'm excited about the trip, though it does not feel like that much of a big deal as it did last year, at least for me.
It will be the 50th Mendeleev Olympiad, so there could be some special anniversary something, we will see.

Thanks for the nice T-shirts for MrSale Öltönyüzlet (http://mrsale.hu/) who supported us with them. They have great suits and other menswear, I bought my navy blue suit from them too, I really like it.