Borodino Hotel Moscow

... gold adorning most parts, but inside were fairly simple with most covered in wall art and minimal bling as it has all been plundered long ago.<br><br>The next square saw the outside of the Senate and the Ivan the Greats Bell Tower as well as the Tsars Cannon and Bell. Moscow had been better than St Petersburg but neither of us liked Russia and it was in excitement that we headed to the station for our first big adventure.<br ...

... a huge palace painted in yellow and white - home to the largest sapphire in the world - and other parliamentary buildings less sympathetically built to its location, are 5 grand cathedrals. Each one is said to fit precisely one into the other, like a Russian doll. Their spires and domes coated in gold - gleaming magnificently in the sun. A grand and ostentacious sign of wealth, but highly ...

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... never found a dull moment while in Moscow. We haggled for cheaper prices on souvineers at our new favourite renic and got our photo taken with Russian military men! The spirit of Moscow makes one bolder and I think it did us some good. By the end however I was really missing my host family and was happy to return home.

... a stupidly expensive luxury shopping mall, complete with ugly Russian women in very high heels and miniskirts prancing about and drinking champagne with caviar. We found the shops to be out of our price range but the food court was cheap, so we stopped for a drink. Today we visited the Kremlin itself where we were ripped off royally by being forced to pay and extra 200 roubles for an audioguide that we did not want. The lady at the desk conveniently ...

... Damnit. Anyways, going to see Lenin was cancelled this day and rebooked for today. We get there and lo and behold, the bloody gates our down. This time however, there seem to be a few touristy looking people trickling in from another entrance. Racing over there we discovered that indeed there was still access to the moseleum although the square itself was closed off to the public (this time for something a little more interesting - it was the olympic athlete fairwell ...

... the Tsar Cannon, also very big. We were able to enter the Cathedrals which now are museums and looked at the amazing interiors, with gold, ancient paintings and icons. The Archangel Cathedral was filled with the tombs of all of the Tsars since 1320. After a while we headed to the far side of the Kremlin where there is a cute garden with flower beds and trees. We wondered what intrigues had taken place there. We visited the massive and impressive Cathedral of Christ the ...

... I think as far as a cathedrals go around the world, that I've seen, this would be in our top 2. The portraits on the walls on the inside are all mosaic made of glass mixed with iron. We had seen mosaic before in Italy, but not as good as this. This was the most spectacular mosaic we had ever seen and at the biggest scale imaginable, apart from any Karin ever made of course. This design was the winner of a competition and the first foundation stone was laid in October ...

... glass box, she looked at me sternly, then proceeded to run my passport through some device, handed it back to me and I was through. Next stop, baggage claim. Located the correct carousel - number 2, waited for my bag to appear and then off to Customs. Filled in the Customs declaration, I was the only one doing so, everyone else just marched out the green door. Went over to the Customs officer and she informed me I didn't have to fill in the form. Deposited the form in ...

... and we began walking. Moscow is a big city of 12 million ppl. Its like toronto, not much in the way of ornate buildings. Mostly communist plain in design. the subway is great, 10 or so lines with trains every minute. you can get almost anywhere. One of the first sites was the Bolshoi theatre which was being restored. Around the corner was the Duma which is one of their government buildings like our parliament. A quick walk past a statue of Karl Marx, and its ...