Sherston Moscow

... she might leave the room... which made her feel like she had to leave the room). Needless to say Amy spent most of her free time in the party cabin ( my room).

The journey was long and uncomftable, and we had very little sleep mainly due to rigorous customs checks by very stern and mean looking customs officers... and we ate all the food on the first night so when we got to Moscow two days later we were starving!!

Arriving in Moscow we felt a combination of relief and ...

... internet cafe, which must have been like platform 9 and a half, as the signs pointed, but there was no actual hall. Laptop held in one hand, we were searching through all the wireless networks for one that was free and available, walking around the crowd feeling heavy and more and more tired. We found it eventually, and got on the metro through the fancy entrance, Red star adorning the dome inside, scrollwork on the lamps lighting the underground halls, the air moving rapidly in and ...

... be thats what the cargo was at the time it was shot down?

Some of the most interesting exhibits was stuff plundered from Nazi Germany. The Reichstag building in Berlin was the centre of the Nazi government. The storming of that building and the raising of the communist flag on it, basically signaled the end of the Nazis. The flag raised on the Reichstag was on display. Having been to the Reichstag in Berlin it was interesting to ...

... of watching movies that hadnt been released on DVD, "Excellent") and I was looking forward to a hot shower and go to bed at the Delta Hotel in Moscow. The road trip took 45 minutes, and there were many cars and people around at 8pm on a Friday night. Arriving at the hotel, I was all excited, it is a tall building and gleamed with colourful lights and surroundings that came across it was a glamerous hotel. The ...

... sia andato a finire bene. Ci diamo appuntamento per il venerdì successivo, a Mosca. E poi cala, finalmente la notte. Mi aspettano 11 ore di viaggio, e di sonno.. Prima di addormentarmi mi sistemo un po', scambio qualche parola con i miei compagni di cuccetta, ripasso ancora quel poco di russo che mi può insegnare la guida Lonelyplanets.. Poi, dopo aver comprato una bottiglia di acqua, perché la mia gola non ha più umidità, mi corico e mi addormento, sognando l'incontro con Polina.. Polina.. Polina..

... I found out the Hostel had not processed my booking I made 2 mths earlier. Despite being fully booked they squeezed me in after an hours messing about. I wasn't bothered, I got free wifi for the first time since Shanghai. So I should have made the most of the afternoon and ok weather, instead I read and got a wifi fix. I've never seen my iFriend so happy; it now tells jokes, explains big words to me and gives me excuses. Unfortunately it could not administer medicine as I was ...

... the Kremlin, which serves as the official residence of the President of Russia.  We learned the first stone structures within Kremlin were initially built by Ivan Kalita in the late 1320s and early 1330s.   It was amazing to see the size of the structure and overall appearance (kind of felt sorry for our President who only gets one building...while the Russian President gets many builds and a whole campus that is 275,000 square miles (68 ...

Firstly I intend to go on holidays to Thailand. But there were some problems concerning my job so we (me and my girl) decided not to wasting time any more and visit Egypt. Neither I nor she were there before so it could become a good experience for us. So at 11:00 a.m. MSK our plane took us to the magic country of ancient pharaohs, temples and pyramids - Egypt.

... you didn't venture off anywhere else). There are some churches, which are now museums, to look at and also a display of rich religious artifacts. It really poured down on us this day, so we went into a McDonalds, whipped out our laptop and used their free wireless service to research our upcoming trips. Tomorrow we are boarding a train in which we will spend three nights (64 hours in total). Our destination is 4098 km from Moscow. This will be our longest stretch on the Trans-Siberian.

... By now the sun was out and it was apparent that it was going to be a nice day after all. We paid a visit to Karl Marx (mainly because he had set up shop right next to the Metropol), and he was still exhorting the proletariat of the world to unite (I think he's getting fewer and fewer takers nowadays), then wandered around Red Square where a strange transformation was taking place. To the south end of the square, wedged ...