...I get up and the sun is still shining...I go to the meeting place for the free tour, can't find it and miss my group...I hang around the Red Square again marvelling at Russia's former - and present - glory...I visit Gorky Park and a monument park with chopped off heads of discarded statues of communist dignitaries - imagine 200 Lenin heads in a huge wire cage or plenty of Molotovs, Stalins or Marxs standing around in what is otherwise a lovely picnic a...

...I get up to do some sightseeing and enjoy amazing weather....I sign up for some tours, including a free tour of Moscow, a Kremlin tour and a metro tour...I go on a tour of Kremlin and see many things here that don't work, for example the world's largest bell that never chimed or the world's largest cannon that never fired a shot and I find out that nobody really knows where Putin lives but that there may be a secret metro line from the Kremlin to h...

1. I board the plane happy and relaxed...2. ...to land in the Domodyedovo airport and marvel at the sheer size of the traffic outside.3. I find out nobody speaks English here and my Russian is...basic at best.4. I order Uber using wifi inside the airport building but then the driver can't find me because I have no internet inside.5. I end up taking the train and observe Russians don't actually check your ticket on the train but you do need it to get out o...