Moscow was a really nice city. It felt quite european except the crazy language. Really beautiful buildings especially the Kremlin and red square. We were glad to have Martina with us, johns sister who can speak Russian making it easy to find your way around the metro and read menus etc!! We ended up eating in Moo Moo's all the time cos it was n...

Moscow is a major economic centre and is the world's billionaire capital, home to the largest number of billionaires in the world and possesses a complex transport system that includes the world's busiest and deepest (so it doubles up as a bomb shelter) metro system, which is famous for its architecture and paintings. I arrived in Moscow on a Fr...

Last night turned out to be highly amusing. After I had posted the blog, I wandered thorough the hotel foyer before heading up to my room. It was after 10pm and all the little shops had closed, there were less people around but there had been an amazing proliferation of suggestively dressed women. Several of these 'ladies of the evening' offered...

Got drunk watching the rugby then picked up by the militia and given a night tour of Moscow.

We're now in Moscow, waiting to catch yet another train this afternoon! Then it off to Ekaterinberg, which is just in Asia and another two hours ahea of Moscow, which is confusing as the train times will stay on Moscow time! For someone who gets confused a lot and struggles with British Summer time this is not a good thing. Although Dunc is quit...

The Train to Moscow. The longest train trip of my life. 4 days and 3 nights with only short 20 minute stops to run and get water or bread from a Babooshka. Ba Ba Babooshka Baababosshkaa. It was stock up time before the train. Instant noodles, Instant potato, Milka, M&Ms, you name it. I accidently bought 2 tubs of liver and buck wheat instead of ...

Well...I returned to Moscow by train this morning - we (Natasha, Dimitri, and myself) arrived at about 6am (departing at 22:40). The trip was much more pleasant this time (admittedly at a higher cost) - please forgive me for wasting an entire entry on my complaints! The car was a closed sleeper - I had three compartment mates ...but only said a ...

First one up, so lots of testing of websites etc going on here. Bear with me. Flights no problem, and settled in Moscow fine. Almost got to see the Locomotiv/Arsenal game, but in the end had to settle for big screen in bar not far from ground with drunk Russians... and boy do they drink. Did lots of lovely touristy things Weds/Thurs, including R...

The last few days have been great. We woke early in Tver to discuss one of the girls had her bag stolen, along with her camera, money and passport! We waited forever for the police, but they never showed.....mmmmm. Anyway, we headed to Moscow where Jen was going to sort it all out. Moscow is very different to St Petersburg, a little more "old", ...