Hello everyone, we've had a very productive day in Moscow, seeing lots of important things: Red Square, The Kremlin, St Basil's and Lenin ('he was waxy'- lou). We've also tried traditional Russian food and it was tasty (and plentiful). Tomorrow we leave Moscow for Ekateringburg which will only take a day on the train. We're there for a couple of days before heading off to the beautiful Lake Baikal that you can see in the picture. The train to Baikal will take t...

Safely in Russia, managed to navigate the metro to get to the hostel, used real live Russian and everything (taken from a phrase book and probably said with an abysmal Russian accent). We explore Moscow tomorrow, then we hop on the train at around 2.30pm on Thursday. Then off we go! The rest of the group we're travelling seem great, be nice to have a few extra English speakers on the trip so we don't drive each other too crazy :P Thankyou for all the message...