Maxima Zarya

Arriving in Moscow, Russia was very strange, especially after the comforts of England!! Very little English is spoken and our Russian is non-existent, so interesting!! Moscow is a huge city (population of 11 million) which caters for the very ...

This morning we rose at 7am feeling quite awake even though our english body clocks were telling us it was 4 am. Buddy the elf turned up 20 mins late which at the moment seems to be our fate. All the other couples departed with their buddies at exactly ...

To start our long and interestig journey I (add) was felt up by a security guard in Heathrow, I then had my liquids tested (no not those!!), Heidi then had her phone scrubbed for explosives. At the Moscow airport we entered the "scrum" which was the ...

Rather than write a blog, this summer I'll just post photos that hopefully paint a picture of our destinations.  So far we've had a great time together on our ...

We arrived at the Moscow Railway Station in St.Petersburg at around 9.00pm after dragging our cases for half a mile over the snow and ice. Too short a trip to get a taxi but taxing it was. Buildings in St. Petersburg are a bit anonymous and the railway ...