After arriving in Moscow on Thursday afternoon and meeting up with Paul, Mike and Mick, we finally found our "room" for the night after battling Moscow traffic for two hours. We then caught a train into the city centre and took a look around Red Square and St Basil's Cathedral, the latter looking amazing in the late afternoon sun. After tackling a Moscow foodhall (where your food gets weighed and you pay by the gram) we got back to our rooms at about 10:30pm. It was difficult to get to sleep because it became dark after 11pm and the curtains were paper thin (perhaps they faded due to daylight savings???) and we were woken up at 5am with the sun streaming in! We then caught our plane, a magnificent Tupulov TU145, to Mineralnye Vody in southern Russia to start our climbing adventure.
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