Back to Moscow

For the last day and a half myself, Paul, Mick and Mike have been looking around Moscow. Friday was "Russia Day" which marks the end of Communist rule, so most sights were closed, not that there was anything to indicate that though. We queued with plenty of of others at the Kremlin ticket office for 30 minutes waiting for it to open before someone asked one of the guards who said it wasn't open today. However, no one would tell us and there was no sign saying so. Welcome to Russia! We did manage to see the Armoury section of the Kremlin which houses magnificent displays of jewelery, arms, armour, clothing, gifts and other royal treasures from the last 800 years of Russian culture. We wandered around various other parts of the centre of Moscow before retiring back to our hostel at the end of the day for Pizza (not very Russian!) and a couple of Siberian non-filtered lagers.

Today (Saturday), we did manage to get into the Kremlin. There are some magnificent buildings and cathedrals dating back several hundreds of years, coupled with one Soviet concrete monolith from the 60s (looked a bit like the Perth Concert Hall!). We rode the Moscow Metro for the last time back to our hostel before taking our transfer out to the Domodedovo airport, our fourth trip between Moscow and its many airports. Mike headed off to Berlin for another six weeks holiday while Paul and Mick flew off to Melbourne via Abu Dhabi, ready for work at the start of the week! For me, its back to London for an overnight catchup with Heather's family before we both start holidaying together and fly out to Dubrovnik tomorrow (Sunday) morning. You might not from us regularly in the coming weeks, especially as we will be on a boat in the Adriatic Sea for the next week! Bye for now.