We boarded the train from Yekateringburg at 9am and a Russian lady was sharing our cabin. We chatted for a while and then she shared her lunch with me (Trish) as the boys where sleeping. Although only 25 hours that seemed to be the longest journey so we slept and read until we arrived in Moscow the following morning.

We were picked up and brought to our hotel which was really nice and then we took the metro into the city centre. We went to the Red Square, which is just a big but very impressive square with the Kremlin on one side and St. Basil's Cahedral at the bottom. You probably will recognise St. Basil's Cahedral, it's the one in the photo attached to this blog. We walked around outside and took many photos and it was really impressive. We went to an underground shopping centre and seen the tomb of the unknown soldier and then met Sean for dinner and a drink. It was Hallowe'en night but there was nothing happening and as Moscow is the most expensive city in the world we had a quiet night.

The next day we completed the trio of embalmed leaders by seeing the man who started it all ie Lenin. His mausoleum is in a very dark cube outside the Kremlin and he looked the most real compared to Mao Zedong in China and Ho Cinh Ming in Vietnam. Since communism has fell there is no real reverence for him like the other leaders and he probably should be buried as he wished in the first place. We walked around and seen various important buildings such as the Duma (Russia's Parliament), the Bolshoi Ballet theatre, the White House where Yelstin was held up for a few days and an ex-KGB prison.

The following day we went and seen a huge, appartently twice the size of the statue of Liberity, statue of Peter the Great. Also we went to see the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, a lovely Russian Orthodox Cathedral with a huge golden dome on top of it. When the sun shone the reflection off the dome was lovely and then we went to the Kremlin. No we didn't run into Putin (the Russian President) but we did see all the Russian Orthodox churches where various Tsar's did stuff, the giant Tsar bell and the giant Tsar cannon which was never fired.

After, we travelled around the Metro, which sounds boring but some of the stations are beautifully decorated. One has stained glass windows, one has chandliers, one is decorated in mosaics and another one has statues decided to Russian heros. Also they are so deep underground that they could be used as bomb shelters, I timed myself on one of the escaltors coming up from a station and it took 1 minute 13 seconds. Yes, how sad but it does give you an idea of the depth underground they go. We met up with Sean for the last night in Moscow as we would be going our separate ways the next day.