Hello All

We would like to start this blog with a big thank you to everyone for our leaving presents and cards as well as all the comments on here as well as the emails.

Christina
If I did not say goodbye to you before I left I am sorry but you were probably lucky as Mandy made me cry. By the way thank you Nan for the 30 sausage rolls and 20 meat pies and Joe for the chocolate cake they kept us going all the way to St Petersburg, and my answer to everyones quetion is NO I would not recommend 3 days on the bus!!

Herman
Thanks for all the kind words over the passing of my grandma. The funeral was last week Friday and everybody said it was very nice.

Since we arrived in Moscow on the sleeper train on Saturday the 7th of March we have visited the Red square, the Basilica, all the nice metro stations on the circle line, the Cathedral of Christ the savour, booked our tickets for the Bolshoy theatre and a pub where we had 3 shots of Snow Queen Vodka, 2 Russian drafts and 1 Pepsi to wash the vodka down. Tomorrow we plan to visit Lenins tomb and the Kremlin with a spot of shopping. Be aware that Moscow is very expensive and that its a glorified LONDON.

We will also try to update the blog as much as possible but we cant always find a internet cafe. So keep watching this page :-)