Well Im here! Theres no photos of Mogolia to chose from here so opted for this, Buddhist Monastry, as Buddhism is practiced by about 95% of people here. Had an awful time both at Moscow airprt and on the flight! Although at checkin my skates were said to be no problem, evidently when going through security to get to my gate they were! Thus followed an awful hour of panic as I was told to go and wait in the lounge with everyone else, until a 'rtepresenta...

Right, so here I am, last night in Moscow, Russia, civilisation! Bit scared at the moment, but still have to pack and all and hopefully gonna watch pairs skating (long programme) on TV in a bit, so thats good. Have had a really nice dinner with M, we actually went to a proper restaurant and spent a proper amount of money for it! We've been quite tight with our roubles, but its paid off, we have quite a bit left, and generally we've eaten ok. So ye...

The image is pretty much our view when we walk out of our hotel! Cool huh?! Yeh we're right next to Red Square, with a great view of St Basils. We arrived at like 8am this morning via the overnight 'sleeper' train. What a night! We shared our 4 bed cabin with 2 English speaking Indian women, one who snored very loudly opposite me on the bottom bunk and the other that continuosly got down through the night and kept leaving our door open. To be fair they weren...

Well, We've been in St P a few days now and we've seen quite a bit. Yesterday we went to the Yusopov Palace, where a very rich family lived up till the revolution. Its well known as the place where Rasputin was murdered. It was an amazing place besides that though. The Yusopov family like most in St P liked the Eurpean look. Each room was dedicated to another style, French, Italian even Arabic! The palace was also really interesting coz one of the memb...

Hey everyone, Just to let you know I've got some Reading pics up thanks to Greg :) Check out the photo albums. Although we only went for the Friday, it was really enjoyable. I've definately got some treasured memories of it that I'll keep with me through my time away. Only thing now is to try and find some digital pics to put up here that have Greg in them!