After an 8 hour overnight train journey we reached Moscow from St. Petersburg. This was our first experience of Russian trains and it was very positive. Arrived at the hotel at 6am, but couldnt check in until 10am, so we sat in the bar staring at the receptionist until 10am. We then slept until our guided tour at 2pm. I doubt we were the most enthusiastic tourists our guide had ever had. After being introduced to the scarily efficient metro system, we headed into the city centre. To say our tour was based heavily around Moscow's architecture would be a minor understatement - lets just say the woman could tell us when every brick was laid and by whom. Still the tourwas quite interesting. After a traditional Russian dinner of Pizza we headed back to the
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