moscow

Maybe it's time for the update about Russia I promised.
It was a really great trip. I always wanted to go to Moscow and now I finally got the chance, unfortunately we were only there for one day. We took the train from Helsinki Tuesday night and then also left Moscow by train at midnight the next day. The trains looked typical Russian, well, at least like I would imagine them. It felt like being in an Agatha Christie novel, Murder on the Orient Express. I was just waiting for the police to come and say that somebody was found dead in their compartment and someone on the train is the killer. Fortunately it didn't happen, I wouldn't really want to be in an encounter with the Russian police.

It was a busy day in Moscow, since we only had one day in town. But we were a little bit unlucky because it was the 7th of November, a former public holiday, the date of the Russian revolution. That's why the streets to the Red Square were blocked by police men in green clothes. Luckily they opened up some of the streets for a while later on so we could actually walk on the Red Square. Wouldn't have been fun going to Moscow and not been able to walk on the Red Square. We didn't get to see the Lenin Mausoleum because that was also closed, that is where Lenin's embalmed body is. Then we got to see Kremlin, where president Putin works. There is also a couple of beautiful cathedrals in there.

The subway in Moscow was incredible. Instead of building a palace for the people to come to and enjoy, they literally took the palace to the people instead. With chandeliers, decorations, paintings, and statues it is the most beautiful subway I have ever seen.

Moscow was a great city, the architecture is amazing. It was a quite cold day though, so I was freezing a lot. But of course it was worth it since I got to see Moscow, the capital of Russia.

The Red Square. With Kremlin to the right and St Basil's Cathedral in the back.

Here I am in front of St Basil's Cathedral.

The police guarding the Red Square.

The amazing Moscow subway. They wanted to take the palace to the people, so they did.

The great train from Moscow to St Petersburg. Really comfortable.

More pictures from Moscow and St Petersburg can be seen here and here.