Moscow Mania

[My photos from Moscow are here. And yes, I groaned when I wrote that title too.]

I arrived in Moscow with sore feet from St. Petersburg, so I planned to take it easy. The great folks at the Trans Siberian Hostel let me check in early, and I was able to take a shower and have a nice nap in the early afternoon in my dorm room. In the evening, I managed to make my way on the giant Moscow Metro to Red Square, which was quite cool to wander around in.

My roommates were two nice Italian guys, about my age, Lorenzo and Eugenio. We ended up hanging out the following day, and making our way out to the nearest “Golden Ring” city. We had quite an adventure running around trying to find the right bus to take, getting ping-ponged around across a 10 block area about 15 times by different people. So we settled on the train, which was packed on the way out, and an interesting experience. The Kremlin at Kozal contained many beautiful churches, and was worth the trip.

On my final day in Moscow, I headed inside the Kremlin. There are several impressive churches there, and some fun giant Russian items too (Tsar Cannon and the bell).

After that I decided to unwind by walking to the sculpture garden, where I saw several cool Soviet-era sculptures, and generally had a nice relaxing time.

The cool folks at TSH once again came through for me, as they let me grab a shower and hang out for a few hours before I headed for my train, even though I had checked out earlier that day. Natasha said because of my performance the night before at happy hour (and the sumo wrestling later in the evening), I could have whatever I wanted.

I’ll write more about the train journey from Moscow to Irkutsk in a future post, but I’ll leave you with this: this time I found the right platform and train, but after about 10 minutes of scurrying around with my ticket, the attendant came back to me and said “Nyet ticket!”.

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