Borodino Hotel Moscow
Rusakovskaya St 13 Moscow, Central Russia, 107140, Russian Federation
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The Lay of The Land
... had a selection of bread, yet no toaster. Spaghetti was one option available (yes for breakfast) and they had some form of pancakes that were closer to pikelets and whose stiffness had them resembling a frisbee. With breakfast mercifully behind us it was time to make our way onto the streets of St Petersburg. We set off in the pre-dawn darkness a little after 9am and made our way down Nevski Prospekt through a light snow fall. ...
Lets start from the very beginning..........
... water and functioning sewerage etc because they used flexible pipes to keep the main infrastructure connected throughout!! Amazing!!
IN the afternoon we wandered into Red square ourselves and took some photos (in our new Russian hats!! He he).
It was then back to the hotel for a snooze before going to a local restaurant for some tea and more Russian beer!!
Weds 24th Aug
Pootled ...
The Spirit of Moscow
... slices. I ate none of it but put the milk in the fridge and kept the cornflakes which I eat this morning with the cold milk and a banana from the market - delicious. We check-out and store our packs in the hostel locker. Our train doesn't leave until 10pm so as we have a full day ahead of us we decide to spend some of it on a river cruise. it may change in the future, but Moscow's basic tourist infrastructure is rubbish.
The river cruise ...
Punched by a Policeman
... crucifix for Jack's ipod. I guess he wasnt as religious as he seemed.
By the time the train arrived at Moscow Jack and I were both quite drunk (though Jack still had his ipod) so we and our two new "friends" and one last straggler from the football crowd headed to a cafe for some food; or at least what we assumed was going to be food as here is where it all became more problematic.
"Money" mumbled the ex-convict; a fair request: we had consumed ...
Beautiful Suzdal in the Golden Ring
... Swiss-style chalets for tourist accommodation (I could have stayed there), a convent from 1364 and a cathedral from the 16th century. The convent was apparently used for unwanted wives of Russian tsars, who sought younger companions. This included Peter the Great's wife Evdokia Lopukhina. The nuns graze their cows in the surrounding meadows in the morning outside the convent walls.
Across the river is the Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius. It is also walled ...



