Hi guys, Our last blog entry from Moscow. Tonight we get on the train for a short hop to Perm. Kind of like a warm up for the long journey ahead. On Sunday we went to a massive market full of souvernirs, second hand items, art and antiques. Unfortunately it was raining so it was smaller than normal but it is only open on a Saturday and Sunday so we didn't have much choice. Claire bought a russian doll and we got a couple of badges. As you can see from the pict...

Hello from Moscow! we arrived yesterday morning on the train, the hostel is very nice, bit of a walk to the tube station though . . . the moscow underground system takes a degree in map reading to understand. . . so we are constantly lost! Today we went to the Kremlin to see the military parrade (lots of silly marching - think john cleese!) at 12:00 and walk arround the churches. They were all very impressive, lots of gold everywhere. we saw the tomb of Ivan the...