We left St. Pete's late Wednesday night.  We took the night train into Moscow and fortunately we were bunked with a very nice Aussie couple from our train tour.  The train ride took 8 hours and we were in Moscow by 8 am.  After getting checked into our  hotel, we set off into the city.  Naturally our first stop was to see Lenin in Red Square!  We had to drop all of our bags and electronics (no photos are allowed) and queue up for...

Can you believe that we're in Russia?! Neither can we, really...After a nerve-wracking plane ride of not knowing what to expect, we landed in Saint Petersburg to be greeted by rain. No problems with passport control or customs, luckily! The toughest part was filling in the arrival card, that's completely in cyrillic. But we managed okay.We took a bus towards the metro line but got off one stop too soon. It turned out okay thugh because we jumped out of th...

Can you believe that we're in Russia?! Neither can we, really...After a nerve-wracking plane ride of not knowing what to expect, we landed in Saint Petersburg to be greeted by rain. No problems with passport control or customs, luckily! The toughest part was filling in the arrival card, that's completely in cyrillic. But we managed okay.We took a bus towards the metro line but got off one stop too soon. It turned out okay thugh because we jumped out of th...