Hotel Tatiana Moscow

... he refused & started getting violent. He grabbed at the tickets in my hands, whilst I was sat on the table, when all three guys lunged from the bunks & grabbed them back. It started getting out of hand at this point, so all the guys were stood around the door (and were easily towering over the Mongolians) and started throwing everything that wasn't ours out of the door. This got the Mongolians even more angry & he gave Fabien a short jab in the stomach ...

... and also a lot of the 'real' Moscow due to scowering the outskirts to find various train tickets we needed to pick up.

Anyway, we are now sitting in the hostel lobby waiting for a taxi to take us to the train station. Our train leaves at 9.35pm and will last approximately 74 hours and 20 mins, destination Irktusk. We have booked a log cabin overlooking the biggest freshwater lake in the world. Should be good!! Enjoy the pics.

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... in the fountain at the center of the park. It looked so tempting but I'm sure I would have looked funny at my age playing in a park fountain!!! At the other end of the park, there was a sculpture on an interesting theme: "Children are Victims of Adults' Vices" by Mikhail Shemyakin. Quite interesting with the message to adults while still interesting to children. I'm glad I stopped by and saw it especially since it ...

... only thing you got was a slab of fish in a heavy cream and butter sauce. I tried the salmon caviar which tasted very fishy to me, but I was told that the good caviar is not supposed to be fishy. I spent on average $25-40 a meal that was like an equivalent of a hot roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes in the U.S. After several meals I was ready to try something ...

... drive. They lived in an apartment. The highlights in Russia for me was seeing the ballet Giselle in Moscow, and the Winter Palace and the boat tour on the River Neva in St Petersburg. On the boat tour we saw amazing navy boats!!! We had a lovely experience of Russia. Mike: Moscow is a very different place to St Petersburg, probably accentuated by reverting to being moreso tourists or observers rather than seeing and ...

... when the train started to go round a bend and I lost my balance. I was stripped to the waist, and ended up staggering backwards into the provodnitsas' compartment, and practically sat on her lap. She wasn't happy. When we finally arrived in Moscow, my number one priority was to have a shower. The place I was staying had a fantastic one, complete with built-in FM radio - over the years I may have had a better shower, but I honestly can't remember when.................

... of the afternoon was stumbling upon the sculpture garden, which houses many of the old Soviet Statues of Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, and Marx.  It appeared as though these once grand and omnipresent forms had literally been plopped in a unkempt field left to wither under the elements.  It left a somewhat eerie feeling and the history buff in me was in heaven (pictures to come).  The next day consisted of a tour of the Kremlin and its magnificent golden ...

... across an older gentleman who was painting pictures of the cathedral. We now have our very own genuine painting of St Basil's by a local Moscow artist. Passing St Basil's we entered Red Square which is lined on one side by the Kremlin precinct. The Kremlin itself is closed on Thursdays so we plan on heading back on Saturday to take a tour. Also in Red Square is Lenin's mausoleum, and again we plan to have a look inside on Saturday. At the opposite end of Red Square from St Basil's is the ...

... of this period is how backward Russia was compared to Europe and how much more Eastern cultures seemed to influence them. Up to the 1700's the Renaissance and the enlightenment had had no impact on them, only with the reign of Peter the Great did Russia rapidly modernize. The section on this period onwards was on the second floor and had no English translations but I didn't mind, there was far to many exhibits to read about them all ...