On the way back last night Steve got chatted up by a prostitute, he took it as a compliment, each to their own I guess. Got up late this morning as didn't get much sleep due to having to wake up every so often to scratch mosquito bites and kill the f***ers that seemed to be having a party in our room, by morning it looked like there had been a massacre in our room cos every time i squashed one it splattered blood everywhere which it had obviously drunk from me a...

We've been trying to make our way through trip advisors top ten attractions, so after the zoo we went to Patriarch Ponds, this turned out to be a large lake surrounded by grass verges, don't know what I was expecting really, but if that was in the top ten what must the rest of the attractions be like. We layed down to sun bathe and quickly fell asleep, Steve said I was snoring really loudly, I don't believe him. On our way back to the hostel we decided to buy our...

We woke around 9 and discovered that the window wasn't such a bonus as we had been feasted on by Mosquitos in the night. Waiting our turn to use the two showers shared by the other 20 people in the adjacent closets, we eventually got ready and made our way to our free walking tour. Our guide Elana was great she was the first Russian I had seen smile, and hada story and a joke to tell about every sight, no one else apreciated her jokes so I made sure I laughed ext...

After just a 3hr flight we touched down in Moscow at 13.30 local time, being 3 hrs ahead. We wandered aimlessly, following the crowd being hurded by a large angry lady shouting in Russian. After about 30 minutes the que had not moved. The angry lady returned and using hand signals beckoned Steve and I to follow her. I was already clenching expecting her to get out the rubber gloves, but by some stroke of luck she showed us to the foreign diplomat entrance, and we...