This will be my last summary post on Russia, I'll try to wrap up the last two days and a little of the flight back, and then anything else I post will just be musings if I think of something I'd previously forgotten (which is probably a lot of stuff to be honest ( Read more... )

Yesterday Mon wasn't feeling much better, a little perhaps but still not quite up to our planned schedule. I'd gotten a message the night before from Masha however as the girls had gotten together and bought Mon a belated birthday present which was very sweet. As such around lunchtime when Mon was feeling well enough to make the trip we went down ( Read more... )

Yesterday Mon woke up feeling very sick, not quite the same way I was sick on the first day, but very similar. We were already starting to feel like a bit of a break might be in order after 3 days of walking around places non-stop, but this more or less forced us to slow down ( Read more... )

Yesterday we woke up just a little bit later and wasted some time before heading down to the buffet breakfast. It's damn expensive at 720rub a piece (about $22 each at a quick guess), but we needed something substantial after missing dinner again the night before and since it was Mon's birthday yesterday, it seemed only fitting ( Read more... )

Ok, I should mention first that I actually managed to find a place that could change my Australian Dollars to Rubles, Mon and I were hopping around stations to go to the doll meet the other day and randomly there happened to be a currency conversion place in the Biblioteka station that accepted AUD. It was such a random occurrence and I haven't ( Read more... )

Mon and I woke up early, we were just too tired the night before and ended up just spending the next few hours interchangeably napping or using the laptop ( Read more... )

It's about 5am and I've been up since 3:30am, not quite used to the time yet and we were so tired after dinner last night that we just went straight to bed at about 8pm. We'll try to stay up tonight though to balance it out a bit, I think we're still sleeping on Australian time.

Anyway I realised after posting that yesterday that there were a bunch ( Read more... )

I'm counting this as a day because it only feels like an overnight trip due to timezones, but it's been about 25 hours now since we left and we've probably got another 5 or 6 before we get to sleep ( Read more... )