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I remember my first train journey when I was about 9 or 10. Mum took Sandra and me to Edinburgh for the day. The train was a big event, as was the zoo and the present we got before we came home. I chose a “teenage doll”. She didn’t have a name as this was pre Sindy. It was that long ago!< …
Day 1-4: Moscow, Russia
... quite a dodgy neighbourhood far away from "home"... just relaxed over some beers and football in the evening
Day 2
Woke up really early not by choice, but because the bed hurt our bodies like hell.... we felt the springs between our ribs (Yes Gudrun, almost as bad as our Paris hotel!)
Went sightseeing in the city, saw Kremlin and some Cathedrals... and boy do the Russian build some nice churches, most of ...
Moscow!!
... is cut off from the public. The actual tour consisted of seeing the churches inside one of the squares in the Kremlin, there are 5 churches on all sides of the square, each holding their own significance. It was here when the rain started so we all ran inside to take cover. We cannot take photos inside, the churches are truly beautiful and every inch of the walls are covered in paintings. It is also interesting to see the different icons in the Churches. The rest of the ...
Wakey, wakey, eggs and steaky!
... us out. It was weird being back in a bar where the smoking ban isn't applied, I remembered exactly why I was so glad those dirty stinking chuffers had to do it outside now! My clothes now reeked of smoke, but we had a great night and the rest of the group seem like a good bunch of people. We have a couple from New Zealand who are really nice, a couple of girls from Florida who are your typical loud nasally American girls, a Gok Wan look-a-like from London who is also really nice and ...
Nyet, Nyet, Nyet...Sparsiba
... down into a cold war Soviet bunker, a cool 18 floors below the ground under a normal looking apartment building. They had a scenario, where you could turn the key and press the button and drop the nuclear warheads on the enemy Americans. I recognized the vision they used in this simulator immediately from James Cameron’s classic Terminator 2 film (the flashback sequence that prompts Sarah Conner to eliminate Miles). Nice try guys. That and you got to dress up and play with ...
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