Kremlin at night from accross the river
Inside St Basils
GYM - in the red square
Resurection Gate and the chapel outside - in the Red square
Back of the Museum
GYM - in the red square
Resurection Gate and the chapel outside - in the Red square
Back of the Museum
Victory Arch
Church of the Spilled Blood
View from accross the river of the Kremlin
Lunch in GYM in old soviet style cafe - look at my big gerkin, well i thought it was but it tasted like a pickled courgette - yuck!
St Basils
Church of the Spilled Blood
View from accross the river of the Kremlin
Lunch in GYM in old soviet style cafe - look at my big gerkin, well i thought it was but it tasted like a pickled courgette - yuck!
St Basils
Red Square
Resurection Gate in the Red Square
Inside GYM mall
The fountain - the middle of GYM mall
State University, the building that makes up one of the 7 sisters that are all shaped the same
Resurection Gate in the Red Square
Inside GYM mall
The fountain - the middle of GYM mall
State University, the building that makes up one of the 7 sisters that are all shaped the same
St Basils Cathedral in Red Square
Kazan Cathedral in Red Square
National History Museum in Red Square
Gate/tower to the Kremlin in the Red Square
Josh and I in Red Square, St Basils in the background
Kazan Cathedral in Red Square
National History Museum in Red Square
Gate/tower to the Kremlin in the Red Square
Josh and I in Red Square, St Basils in the background
Today Josh and I caught an early morning flight to Moscow, it took 2.5hrs and there is a time change of 3 hours. We met Mum and Dad at the hotel as they flew in earlier! From Tallinn - via Finland as I made a mistake organising the flights - but never mind we all arrived and went out for a meal locally before heading to bed to rest up for a day of sightseeing tomorrow.
On Sunday Mum and Dad met up with a friend of Dads and did their own tour of the city so Josh and I went on a bus tour of the city. Let's just start off with the fact that Josh slept through most of the tour as he had a temperature and coming down with a cold! Then we can't forget that the temperature in Moscow was 6 degrees Celcius - and man was it cold!!!
Anyway whilst Josh was still awake we walked in the red square - which was really beautiful and then we saw all sorts of different sights around Moscow city and pretty much - it's all really not very attractive outside of the red square. We went up the road where the old KGB headquarters where and the new Ministry of Defence was and some other thing that the KGB call themselves now, only we where told not to take photos or the police where likely to come onto the bus and take the camera off us! We drove up Sparrow Hill and saw the State University, there are apparently 7 buildings all built in this same shape that where built during Starlin's times - they are called the 7 sisters, all have different things inside them - the uni, a hotel etc. However, when we met with a friend of Josh's for dinner he said that apparently they are all arranged so that rockets could be fired from them in order to protect the city - who know but quite interesting.
After the tour we had lunch in the shopping mall GYM. It used to be the old soviet government shops that where mostly empty of food, but now they are filled with expensive shops and an amazing supermarket that Josh and I really enjoyed buying food from! yummy and of course the mall was nice and warm.
In the afternoon we went inside St Basils Cathedral adn the Kazan Cathedral - this was built in 1993 - on the site of the old one. it's an acitve orthodox Russian church so because it was sunday the bells wehre ringing and ther was singing coming out - which sounded really pretty. We saw the resurrection gate and the Chapel at the gate. We went around the state history museum - which was mostly boring but again nice and warm so no complaints! We also located another shopping mall that is underground - goes down 3 stories. We did a bit of looking but it was worse than Oxford street so after an overpriced coffee we left.
In the evening we met up with a friend of Josh's for dinner and ate at a Ukranian restaurant. I have so far come to the conculusion that they serve really good soup in Russia, i'm not so sure about the other apertifs that we had - they tasted like lard to me - but good fun to try the different food.
Today we also managed to master the metro, well Josh managed to master the metro and get us from place to place according the Russian names - a little more than i was able to manage!
A good but exhausting day. Especially for Josh who now has a fever an full blown cold from being in 6 degrees all day!
