A very quick note today, as my half-hour on the computer in the Russian Post Office is about to end! Moscow has, like St Petersburg, been wet - yes, their heatwave ended the day we arrived and it's been 13 degrees C rather than 30 for the duration of our stay... Moscow has been strangely unimpressive in comparison to St P. Although it has much that is monumental in scale, many of the monuments were rather disappointing once you got in. The Orthodox cathedrals are tiny on the inside, although highly decorated... and the VDNKH, which was once Stalin's massive park devoted to progress in the Soviet Union, is now an emtpy husk of a place.
Oops, time to go!
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