Dodging dodgy police in Moscow
January 29th 2008 We arrived in the capital around 6am after a restless nights sleep on our first Russian sleeper train ride, a mere 8hrs. It was incredibly hot and stuffy making sleep difficult. We ventured out into the morning air to find it was snowing heavily. With only a short distance to our hostel we decided to enjoy the snow and walked, we arrived at the hostel by 7am. As is Russian custom (we have now rea
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