[lbo-talk] Volga roadtrip

[Wendy Lyon]

Most of the places I visited in the Volga region (admittedly not near
Nizhny) were pretty grim. Let me tell you about Togliatti.  Its sister
city is Flint, Michigan ... 'nuff said.

On 29/01/2008, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've never been to Nizhny, but if it's a typical
> industrial suburb, "sprightly" and "colorful" are not
> the words to describe it. "Grim" is probably too much.
> But the writer is using loose, colorful
> travel-journalism language. Haven't you ever noticed
> that whenever a British journalist describes a foreign
> country, it's always "grim"?
>
> --- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
> wrote:
> \>
> > I am sitting in a spartan hotel room in a grim
> > industrial suburb of
> > Nizhny Novgorod.
> >
> > ^^^^^^^
> >
> > CB:  "grim" ?  Sounds like leftover anti-Soviet
> > language.
> >