What is it with cars and girls that brings out the open-roader in a boy? The Blue Elephant restaurant at Barrikadnaya, one of the haunts of the rich, the cool and the casual, sponsors an annual Ladies Rally (Женское Ралли) round the streets of Moscow where any woman with a classic car is invited to show up and put her foot down. I went as representative of Passport magazine (http://www.passportmagazine.ru/), which I am now helping to edit. The food was great, the drink free and abundant and the... well, this is one of the local girls, Светлана Хоркина (Svetlana Khorkina), the world champion gymnast, sandwiched between a Roller and a Jag--lucky Roller; lucky Jag!
Saturday 23 June 2007
Ladies Rally
What is it with cars and girls that brings out the open-roader in a boy? The Blue Elephant restaurant at Barrikadnaya, one of the haunts of the rich, the cool and the casual, sponsors an annual Ladies Rally (Женское Ралли) round the streets of Moscow where any woman with a classic car is invited to show up and put her foot down. I went as representative of Passport magazine (http://www.passportmagazine.ru/), which I am now helping to edit. The food was great, the drink free and abundant and the... well, this is one of the local girls, Светлана Хоркина (Svetlana Khorkina), the world champion gymnast, sandwiched between a Roller and a Jag--lucky Roller; lucky Jag!
