After 5 days on the train we were really ready to get flying into Moscow, however the maximum -15c weather has really inhibited what we have been able to do. Its unbelievably cold I have resorted to double layers of thermals and I've bought a huge russian fur hat! Clare has the same, well she looks like a garden gnome at the mo! We have been around the main sites, St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square ,Lenin's Mausoleum (He is tiny must be 5"5' very little man), the Kremlin. All are stunning esp Stalin's skyscrapers (The big guy built them cos he was jealous of the US ones but built them in a Russian style very cool). But it has been that cold that we have had to scoot through them, so its kind of turned us
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