Our next city guide Vadivir was there to meet us from the train, was raining heavily so got soaked just getting to the car.
The hotel was on the outskirts of town but very close to a Metro station. Was a very nice room but for some crazy reason the heating was locked on and so the rooms were absolutly baking.
After some more sleep we went into town, just made it into the mausaleum with a very dead Lenin before it closed for the day. The que was quite ammusing as many people ignored all the guide books and took bags with them only to be turned away when they had reached the front.
The centre of Moscow is pretty amazing withthe huge Red Square, St Basils, the Kremlin and the enormas GUM shopping cente all within spitting distance of each other.
We had a Kremlin tour booked in for a couple of days later so we headed out on the tube to the WW2 monument and Victory Park. This is a very tranquil area in the srawling metropolis.
There is also and excellent open airwar museum which had a trench system dug out that you can walk through, all of the artilery from small arms through to heavy artillery, a greatcollection of planes including a MIG 29 and, there's even a large man made lake to show off the war ships in their proper environment.
Went to a Russian Opera performance that evening, which was nine singers performing hyms and traditional Russian songs, very good al in all.
Having gone back to Red Square to get night shots of St Basil's we took a cab over to Vlad's local pub for a few beers and he taught me how to play Russian Pool. This is a very strange game with 15 large white bals and one red, the pockets are also very small. I won 8-3!!
Lozza'a feet are by now falling apart and she's feeling a little sorry for herself.
