Day #15: Moscow

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Despite a poor night's sleep on an especially noisy sleeper train, we made a visit to Imaylovsky market. Few stalls were open at this time of year, and when we arrived at about 10:30am we were the only tourists we could see, although a few more turned up later on. There were enough stalls open for us to get the idea if not quite the full buzz of the fully open market, with displays of rows and rows of matryoshka dolls, with designs from political to glitzy, and racks of fur hats (apparently the other sourvenir of choice from Moscow).

Odder was the fake Kremlin, which must be a strange place to visit even when packed with tourists, but only the odd person milling around, felt like an abandoned theme park, like a little bit of Blackpool in winter in Moscow.

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