I'm getting used to Moscow now but it was a bit of a culture shock after St Petersburg which is tiny in comparison. St Petersburg seems to be designed by women for women with all the fairytale-esque pastel coloured buildings, not to mention the catwalk show which was Nevsky Prospect. Moscow is altogether more masculine and on a huge scale; the buildings are towering awe inspiring structures and the city is encircled by a series of ring roads which twenty lanes of...

Hey People, thanks for the mesages :) will reply as I can. Since my last blog we've come to Moscow by sleeper train, which was very exciting and I'm looking forward to our next epic train journey to Irkutsk tomorrow night. When Laura and I boarded the train it was pitch black and we spent the 20 minutes before the train set off frantically trying to put our beds together in the dark with the help of my torch and the hindrance of our rucksacks. The two Russian la...