Well, what can I say, Moscow has truly surprised me. We have had the most fun time exploring the city centre, Red Square, The Kremlin, St Basil's Cathedral and most surprisingingly of all the Metro! Many of the stations were built to epitomise the Russian word "svet" meaning radiance and brilliance and were built when Stalin was in power to showcase how powerful the country was. Some of the stations are like palaces and very beautiful. We spent a couple of ho...

We arrived in Russia this afternoon. We had a bit of a delay due to ice at Domodedovo airport and had to go into a holding pattern for half an hour until the weather improved, which it did, and we landed ok. We then had to navigate our way up to Moscow using the Aerotrain which takes 45 minutes to Moscow. On arrival we followed the crowd to the Metro and managed to buy tickets and get the right tube train with no major dramas. The tube station was AMAZING, th...