From Russia with Borsch Greetings from Moscow! We're not even one week into our trip but feel like we've been gone for months. That's probably due to the complete language block we've encountered in St Petersberg and Moscow what with the cyrillic alphabet being a complete mystery to us. That said we seem to be getting by pointing, gestures and using 'da' (yes) and 'nyet' (no). As you probably were all aware, Russia is bloody cold! The layers and thick sock...

So here we are the exotic land of Bolton, England! Basically, we just wanted to give anyone who's interested some information on our assumed route and keep people upto date on the general pre trip happening (though visa wise nothing seems to happen fast). If anyone has any advice or suggestions, don't be shy! We'd love to hear anything you think would be helpful. The trip will roughly follow the following route (Arrival dates in bold): 26th Oct 2011 Trans...