Man, we are so close to North Korea. There is a group of North Koreans staying at our hotel (some kind of athletes, I think) and I really wish I could talk to them.
Anyway. Vladivostok is in many ways very pretty, but it's also very under contruction. I've never seen a place this under construction. They are building two huge bridges and several big hotel-looking buildings on the bay. It looks like construction on some of the buildings goes on 24 hours a day. There's this huge ditch, about four fweet wide and maybe six feet deep, that runs like a gaping wound the whole length of one of the roads just inland from the water. There are open manholes everywhere. APEC, a pretty big-deal economics conference, is happening in Vladivostok in 2012. I dunno if the city will be ready for it, but it's definitely trying.
Speaking of trying, a lot of Russian women dress up, a lot. Skirts and make-up and stripper shoes everywhere. The ones who pull it off look hot, and the ones who don't look ridiculous. Even by Russian standards, the women here in Vladivostok are especially hot and well-dressed. (The men are the same.) I keep wanting to get uptight about all the injury potential that comes with the city's basically being one big open construction site, but then I remember that for every big ridiculous hole I have to leap over, the local women do the same thing every day. Mostly in stripper shoes.
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