Back in Moscow - Part 1 - My first 24 hours

The first 24 hours is always a challenge... and this time proved no different ... to get everything working so I can operate !!!...There are always surprises... I have a lot of things I want to do and achieve... so no time to waste.... This is my 3rd visit... first in 2017, 2nd in 2023 and 3rd now in 2024... The first was a piece of cake was met by my friend at airport and he non-stop helped me around... for 2 weeks .... I was like a baby who coud not yet walk or talk :-).... the 2nd visit... all on past videos was also easy... had not set my self so many heavy duty things to do and achieve... but this one I knew would be more like an ekspedition than a holiday... I felt I had learnt enough on previous visits to go full blast...

[@a2agata]

Хорошие пожелания из Санкт-Петербурга этой элегантной леди! ❤

[@grandmabente123]

thank you for the compliment ))))

[@Andrey_Bodrey75]

Просто добро пожаловать!)🖐️❤️ Случайно залетел ваш ролик... Хорошего отдыха вам!)

[@garrisergeev3963]

wonderful grandma, everyone has to like this video.

[@grandmabente123]

Glad you like it... its just as it is, a love ly day back in Moscow, on MY street haha ha... love this area... 10 km from Red Scquare but still in Moscow... and 5 minutes away from one of the main traffic veins Mira Prospect... such an insteresting street going back to 900 AD !!!! coming up next !!!! 9999

[@ЛюдмилаСевастополь-ы4у]

Как прекрасно, что Вы приехали!!! ❤

[@ЛюдмилаСевастополь-ы4у]

@@grandmabente123 ❤

[@Nasteno4ika]

Привет из России 👋Мне 37, но иногда даже выйти на улицу нет энергии 😂🤦 А в 83 путешествовать по миру, особенно в такое непростое время - примите моё восхищение 👏👍🔥 Приятного вам путешествия и только хороших людей на пути 🤗 Планируете ли посетить Санкт-Петербург или другие города России? 😊

[@grandmabente123]

as for 37... get your ass off the chair and go for some lovely walks... will chnage your life... been working all my life lots of sitting and standing.. never ''walking''' and never walking for recreation... since I started walking 1 year ago OMG life is so much bigger and easier... usually do average 6-7 km but sometimes 12-15... did Mira Prospect and walked 12 km... wow... yes planning on all of Russia... more like out in the wild... but yes St petersburg judging from pictures is extremely beautiful... like expremely...

[@Nasteno4ika]

@@grandmabente123 👏👏👏

[@grandmabente123]

@@Nasteno4ika 🤗🤗🤗

[@БасиеваИда]

👍👍👍🤗​@@grandmabente123

[@Анна-в6с5п]

Just getting to Russia is an adventure by itself nowadays, not a fun trip. This lady is an inspiration!

[@grandmabente123]

you ar so right... choose over Istanbul, cheapest flight cost 4 x direct Copenhagen Moscow if no sanction... Those Damn sanction !!!!... taken 9 to 24 hours instead of 2 1/2... cost energy... yes you are damn right... but alas, as long as its possible somehow... and you arrive .. good...

[@JaneJannie]

Такая милая женщина 😊

[@20062bMinnieSmooth]

Hey, Grandma Bente! I'm 26 years old, I live in New Jersey and I have been looking for an adoptive Grandma since I became an adult. My last surviving grandparent Mary Frances Smallwood Kenner died when I was still a kid. She was old school strictly religious. She was not proud of me like she was of the other 13 grandchildren and the great grandchildren. She died while she was VERY disappointed in me because of my disrespectful behavior and because of how off track I was as I was always doing things my parents told me Not to do instead of doing the right thing. It hurts that I never made her proud nor my grandfather (whom I was named after) proud of me. The good news is I finally grew out of that ugliness and blossomed into a handsome adult. It hurts that my grandparents never were able to see the bloom because my dream was to make my grandparents proud of me. My heart has not been the same since my last surviving grandparent died. The only choice i have is to just be kind. Grandma Pat, I want you to be my Grandma instead. We're both born in May, I love your white hair, the type of Grandma I always wanted, and I also want you to be proud of me no matter what.

[@grandmabente123]

dont you worry, your grandparents will know ... they are still there... only the body dies, not the spirite (or soul).... So you live in New Jersey... I had a friend from there lovely woman.... good to know you like the way you have grown... life is a challenge...

[@niiv9747]

Как же это странно, я в некотором замешательстве🤔😳

[@Custoder]

Хорошо отдохнуть!!!

[@grandmabente123]

Believe me I am now back in DK... ))) This was as I say later on not a holiday but an ekspedition... hard work ha ha ha

[@lilianurutdinova7262]

you are such a nice person, have a nice stay

[@grandmabente123]

Thank you for the compiment 🙂and yes I did have a very kovely day...

[@ORLOFF_86]

Hello sweet granny❤️, you are so kind and positive! Health to you!🤗

[@grandmabente123]

Thank you... ya with good health life is good... ))))

[@Almaifina]

Good day to you. Thank you for visiting Russia. You are an interesting person. My husband, though not a geologist, used to go to so called 'school faculty' from age 10. This 'school faculty' has been organized by Московский Геологоразведочный Институт имени Орджоникидзе. They sent their students to schools and agitated children to participate this faculty class to study geology after school. They studied about minerals, fisics, they went to forest and lived in tents, studied how to make fire in winter... Also they went to different rigeons to actual mines and rocks research. Some kids continued their education in that university. And we mat with my husband because now all grown ups thеy still are friends 😊

[@grandmabente123]

That is very interesting, the system of encouraging kids to do such studies and do research and field work after school... I waited till I was 71 when I ''retired'' and thats what I do... Was a social worker in Africa and East Asia for 45 years... ... so having studied for 12 years just reading everything I coud put my hands on... its time to go out and find some of these things... my main interest is Paleo- ... i.e. early man... and early Earth.. the more I study the more its the geology that I find most interesting... and there Russia is a treasure trove... Just the tectonics alone... ... I had a good talk with Roger Kurbanov who turned out to be not a geologist but a geographer... I recorded our walk and talk ... and that video is coming soon !!! )))) thanks agin for telling me about your husband's studies...

[@Zanna_pr]

очень приятно познакомиться! мне тоже всегда это удивительно - осознавать,что некоторые породы камней тысячелетние и видели всё

[@grandmabente123]

тоже рада знакомству... да, старые камни могут рассказать много историй))) Выложу видео о моей встрече с куратором Роджером Курбановым в МГУ, мы пошли на прогулку, так как университет закрыт на каникулы... и у нас состоялся очень интересный разговор, где я узнал много нового... glad to meet you too... yes old stones can tell many stories ))) I will post a video on my meeting with Curator Roger Kurbanov at the Moscow State University, we went for a walk as University is closed during holidays... and we had a really interesting talk, where I learnt new things...

[@Саловдуркаине]

Самое главное моё пожелание вам женщина, никак не могу назвать вас бабушкой это здоровья вам крепкого. Рады всем прекрасным и добрым людям! Добро пожаловать!

[@grandmabente123]

tHANK YOU !!!! i Do feel welcome. Everyone kind and helpful... Russia is a very good country in every way... Nature, People and politics... I feel at home here and at peace.

[@Саловдуркаине]

​@@grandmabente123😊❤🤗

[@sandrama22]

Inspiration ❤

[@clarencekenner4937]

Good to see you back, Grandma Bente 🤍🤍

[@grandmabente123]

thank you, ya been a long time but could not post video on youtube in Russia... so now they are coming... being bavk in dk....

[@anjapower8727]

hello! So happy having found your videos! The whole world should see this travel experience! Wonderful. Best wishes!!!

[@grandmabente123]

and I am happy you did find it...)))))

[@ПосольствоРусскихПисателей]

Well done!

[@leonardleonard3769]

Здоровья вам и новых путешествий

[@Konopele4ka]

Почему все пишут "бабуля"?! Прекрасная, энергичная женщина, выглядит чудесно.

[@grandmabente123]

becuase I called my channel GrandmaBente... I am actually even a great grandma... ... but thanks for the compliments )))))...

[@Dixis]

What a beautiful lady 😍 Hello from Moscow. There is a pretty good paleontology museum of Orlov in Moscow, as I remember there was a huge collection of prehistorical insects which stucked in an amber and other fossils.

[@grandmabente123]

I visited the Vernadsky geology Museum, that had such... ... but did not know there was one more... Vernadsky Museum... has rocks dating back 34 Billion years... .. onwards... thank you for the data.

[@Dixis]

@@grandmabente123 yeah Orlov's is the one of my favourite, I have visited it as kid and still remember it 😍

[@neznayou3217]

So much energy! Welcome to Russia!

[@MegaKubanoid]

Добрый вечер

[@Bobby.truthsayer.1956]

Dear Grandma Bente, Next time don’t change your money in the airport! This is always a bad deal. They see you coming and count on your inexperience. Once outside the airport ask any civilian where is the best exchange office. Then you will receive the fair exchange rate.

[@grandmabente123]

you are right, this time I had no choise... now I have an acc opened in a russian bank, and they are open till 8 pm... so that my first stop before going to hotel to pay... )))

[@Anna87880]

Take care Bente❤️

[@АндрейШевцов-и9у]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Lietuva47]

Dear Grand Maa congratulations for safe arrival to Moscow ! and we hope that you even learn some Russian, being in very safe territory ;)?!

[@grandmabente123]

Thank you... yes that alone is a win !!! Learning to read the street signs and signs ... and metro stations... its a good excersice for getting more certainty on the alphabet... the alphabet is the key... if I can sound out the words I can also learn to talk ... generally the counds of your alphabet is very like Danish sounds... not like English !!! so its a beginnig )))

[@srupirogami4925]

Всегда пользуйтесь приложением Яндекс такси, таксисты которые на вокзале или аэропорту вам выставят большую плату

[@grandmabente123]

yes first get the sim car for russian, then download the Yandex taxi app, and order a taxi... step 1, 2, 3 on arrival Russian airport... )))))

[@svart3917]

The hotel near Yaroslavskaya street if I'm not mistaken. I used to live there 7 years ago.

[@grandmabente123]

Yes exactly... I like the street, so green its like a village in the city... Its a very good area... I was here last year too... and love walking that street... wow 7 years you know the street well ))))

[@svart3917]

@@grandmabente123 Well, I should remember those streets. I'm Russian and spent 8 years of my life in the capital. Used to live nearby the hotel.

[@leonardleonard3769]

Очень необычный контент.. надеюсь путешествие пройдет хорошо

[@srupirogami4925]

Здравствуйте

[@Анита-о9й]

Добро пожаловать в Матушку-Россию!

[@grandmabente123]

Thank you )))))))

[@leonardleonard3769]

Перед поездкой стоит заранее установить несколько приложений.. которые вам очень сильно помогут и сэкономят деньги.

[@OluenRival]

Good afternoon! In Russia, there is a popular paleontologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky. It tells interesting stories about humanity and antiquity. And also conducts excavations for which you can sign up and come in the summer.

[@grandmabente123]

WOW that is very good and useful news.... THANK YOU !!!! Thank you very much. I looked him up on wikipedia... and will find out more about his work... that he delivers/conducts courses and ekspedition sounds very interesting... so he works where Kurbanov works... WOW ...

[@leonardleonard3769]

I think if you started talking to someone... many didn't believe that you were from another country.

[@poulgundersen4891]

Inspirerende med dit gå på mod og gode humør Bente. Dejligt at alt faldt på plads for dig i Moskva i løbet af de første 24 timer..... lige med undtagelse af 'eye brow pencil' altså 😀

[@grandmabente123]

next video is what happened when I bought the eye brow pencil !!! 🙂 You just wont believe it....

[@AlisonTarrantEducation]

Hello dearest. ❤❤❤. Could only watch a few minutes Watch the rest soon 😊😊😊

[@grandmabente123]

promise !!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ggerdagg]

You are cute:))

[@jaculton2641]

Is this some kind of propaganda. Don't get it. Average 350 views and 2 comments per video. This video has 5k and 100 comments. Why so popular granny?

[@niiv9747]

Канал новый, как я понял🤔 А этот видос просто в рекомендации удачно залетел, поэтому столько народу залетело. Большая часть быстро ушла, так как это не их тип контента скорее всего, а небольшая часть решила оставить комментарии в поддержку. Думаю, как-то так🤔 Комментариев всегда значительно меньше, чем просмотров, как и лайков, собственно! Так что я не думаю, что это какая-то пропаганда, просто результат причудливой работы алгоритмов Ютуба!)

[@grandmabente123]

Obviously So many more like this topic... I am over the moon, of course... got 100 new subscribers in 4 days... while having battled for 18 month with only 72 to show for it ... Comments majority are Russian people who love Russia like I do and has given me good advice as to what to do and see re my Geology and Archaeology studies... I obviously have found the right audience... to mutual delight.

[@grandmabente123]

@@niiv9747 See my answer to the question... channel is 18 months old... so not ''new''... the relationship between Views/comments, new subscrivers and likes... I think is ''normal''... well lets see how it goes from here.... If you look at my channel and the 65 previous videos... you can judge whether this one is genuine ...

[@jaculton2641]

Yeah but adding 5k overnight is unprecedented. Especially if your not in a bikini in the thumbnail😂. Good luck grannies enjoy your moment in the spotlight.​@@grandmabente123

[@jaculton2641]

​@@niiv9747lol. You can't kid a kidder 😂

[@АндрейНикитенко-ф4с]

+

[@СергейЩукин-х8с]

Очень интересно. Только, ни хрена не понял.

[@grandmabente123]

sorry, I dont speak Russian 🙂

[@demonolog197]

Подними ленивую попку, включи субтитры😊

[@homuchoghoma6789]

Тебе лень нажать на кнопку "перевести" и слушать бабулю на русском языке ? 🙄

[@niiv9747]

Чел… Ты не по адресу, явно!

[@chisomahamba379]

Beautiful granny.

[@grandmabente123]

thank you 🙂

[@oldbagira2192]

Приезжайте в республику Бурятия, город Улан-Удэ. Тут есть музей геологии, где находятся образцы различных камней Восточной Сибири.

[@grandmabente123]

thank you for the data... and advise... I have read about Ulan-Ude but did no know there is a Geology Museum... I looked up Ulan Ude on Wikipedia... talked about ethographis museum.. and an outdoor museum with old wooden buildings and churches... What the name of the Geology Museum ?

[@oldbagira2192]

@@grandmabente123 rosnedra.gov.ru/press/news/geologicheskomu_muzeyu_ulan_ude_50_let/

[@grandmabente123]

@@oldbagira2192 thank you very much, found it read it... and will look more into it...

[@grandmabente123]

@@oldbagira2192 Have now looked up exactly where Uland Ude is and how far from Novosibirsk... well ... since I started studying AP Okladnikovs work, I have wanted to go to the Altai... so beautiful !!!!!!!! ... and now I see Ulan Ude is right there in the middle, must be the Capital of Buryatia ... WOW... Whats the best season to do a MINI-hike in the Altai ? I like it cool!!! NOT COLD ))))... and for an old girl like me not used to mountain walking ... DENMARK IS SO FLAT.... whats the best places to do a 2-3-4 days hike ? Are you on VK ?... if so we can communicate there too... Its all so very exciting and wonderful...

[@Klypin]

Также рекомендую город Кировск на Кольском полуострове. Там огромная коллекция минералов со всего мира, а зимой видно северное сияние. Впрочем, наверняка в России можно найти много коллекций минералов