Crowne Plaza World Trade Ctr Moscow

... fascinated by how such areas of vastness (such as the zoo) can exist in such a busy city. To finish the evening we spent an hour on a pedalo together for next-to-nothing, but what is supposed to be a nice and pleasant journey around the lake turned out to be like going on the dodgems as Peter refused to go anywhere forwards for the second half.<br><br>On the Sunday Peter cooked a huge English Breakfast for all of us, which Olga and Helen enjoyed thoroughly. We had ...

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... it was.<br><br>The English speaking scalper was telling us that he has been in this line of business for 15 years. He purchases the Bolshoi Ballet tickets many months in advance...all shows are sell outs. He was ruing these days of economic downturn as last year he was selling approx 150 tickets to tourists a week now he is lucky to sell 20. Bet he was thrilled when he spotted us!<br><br>

... nicht einlassen - klingt nach viel Bakschisch. Die nächste Schwi**igkeit war h**auszufinden, wann üb**haupt welch** Zug fährt. Kann ja nicht so schw** sein od**? Leid** sagt d** Fahrplan was and**es als die Int**netseite, d** Reiseführ** was and**es als die Russische Eisenbahn. Eine einzige Katastrophe. Manchmal hab ich mich gefreut, endlich einen Zug gefunden zu haben, nur um dann draufzukommen, dass d** Fahrplan von vor zwei Jahren ist. Und um das Ganze noch ein bissl ...

... by now I was somewhat demoralised and I was worried about getting lost again and missing my train. Instead I tried to find a hotel so I could relax get some rest and take a final shower, as there aren't any on the Trans-Siberian. I heard Moscow was expensive but the prices I got quoted at 3 star establishments were nothing short of astronomical. Defeated I headed to the less than salubrious surroundings of Yaroslavsky station. The next 6 hours were utterly dull ...

... 5 years as dancers, mostly in ballroom and were well travelled. They had just decided to settle in Moscow after so many years of travelling, although they originally were from further south. They were so nice to us, it was uncanny or at least unRussian. He helped us get all the way back around so we could collect our cameras and phone, talking the whole time about why it is that Russia is so absolutely not tourist friendly. Another good quote, "it's because we have so ...

... friends take me on a driving tour of the city at night. She isn't the best driver, by any stretch of the imagination, but at least she was safe as her top speed was about 20mph. We managed to get lost as her friend was less than helpful with a map and I wound up getting a nice 2 hour tour that should have taken 20 minutes. Then I decided to take over the ...

... have walked back to the hotel to get changed. No pain no brain! We headed directly for another cathedral called Saint Isaac's. Another mosaic master piece but much much different to St. Basils or the Church of spilt blood. I found this one of the most informative churches I've ever been in. Not in a spiritual sense, more how the structure was build. At the time it was one of the biggest engineering feats. Techniques were developed here that are still being used today. That and ...

... steeper and older! I located what I thought was the correct platform and asked a local for reassurance and she confirmed I was in the right place. One stop then off and change to another line. A helpful man in a militaristic uniform (? police, ? army, ? ticket inspector) pointed me in the direction of the right platform. Once there I spent a good five minutes staring at the cyrillic alphabet signs until I managed to decipher enough so that I got on the train heading in ...

... walls are red. As you can imagine, security is pretty tight and according to Marina our guide, the Kremlin is a separate state, the way the Vatican is in Rome. Being an early settlement, the Kremlin has many buildings in it and was home to Tsars when in Moscow. All of the towers that now are capped with Red Stars where originally capped with the 2 headed eagle that was prevelent in St. Petes. One of the streams i mentioned was buried underground and the area turned ...