One of the hard things in Moscow with little children was obviously the lack of ramps/lifts or anything else that could make your life with a stroller easier… But apart from that, it is extremely dirty outside. My kids constantly returned looking like homeless people because they are used to sitting on the ground, staircases, walking in the grass without worrying to step into glass or worse… so today when my daughter casually suggested she takes her shoes off on our way home I just let her do it… because a) it is what her chiropractor recommended b) it is in fact so clean out in the street… mind you we don’t obviously live in the very heart of the busy city…