Little bit sad as today was my last day in Moscow, a city which despite its rather grumpy population I have really come to love and think of as home. It has also been a day where I have lost some really fun people from my tour like Tim and Louise. That's one of the awful parts of my job, you meet these really awesome people and the you have to put up with losing them and potentially never seeing them again. This morning our first order of business after br...

Last Kremlin tour with Helen this morning, but first Andy and I decided to get up early to check out the famous Ismailovo markets. We walked over behind the old Gamma Delta hotel, but they were still pretty much setting up. We decided to have a coffee in the café there, well Andy decided to have a coffee and just ordered me one. I swear I've drunk more coffee on this trip that I have in my entire life. At least I know the Russian word for milk so I didn't ...

Had a great day today with a bit of actual sightseeing. I took my group on their orientation this morning, which after I got to the Hermitage became a bit manic due to road works that blocked my path and having to find an alternate route. Just when you start to relax you hit a problem in this job! Our detour meant we were late for our Hermitage excursion and of course there was a line about ten people long at the ticket office! I managed to get the group in...

I had a very productive day today. I say that, but I actually just mean, I got everything done today that needed to be done. You know you're overseas when a simple task like getting something printed takes three hours of your time, because you have to go half way across town to do said printing. I've not been very well today either, nor was I well yesterday. I think this is the fault of the McDonalds on Nevsky Prospect. I've made a new resolution, no mor...

This day on tour is usually spent doing paper work and booking tickets, but as my next tour is so far in advance, I didn't have to do any of that today. I had a bit of a sleep in and then joined some of my passengers for breakfast. At 12pm I decided to go on Helen's city tour as all the passengers had decided to go and I had never done the tour before. I actually got to go to some places in Moscow that I had never been and got all the history of these places...