So, final post before its all a board the trans Siberian railway tomorrow for 14 days of cold weather, train food and thousands of miles of watching the world go by from the window. Moscow is BIG. About half an hour outside of Moscow train station the tower blocks started....and its nothing like coming through Clapham Junction on the way to Waterloo; these tower blocks are massive and there are thousands of them. Its a weird sight, makes you feel very small and must give the inhabitants the feeling that they are part of something big but maybe not very individual - or was that the point?
I am not one for pointless bureaucracy so I knew there would be things about Moscow that would annoy me, and there has been, but the overwhelming feeling is that this is a city and a country in transition, trying to find its way post communism without loosing its culture and identity. Today I saw the dead body of Lenin, there are plans to bury him sometime soon but there are mixed feelings amongst the Russian people so it wont be without a fight I'm sure... it felt like the Russian version of the pyramids, their way of creating a "god" out of their dead leader....actually the whole experience has left a rather bad taste in the mouth. Dragons in Russian culture are a symbol of evil and in Victory Park late last night with the moon and the mist hovering over the top of the WW2 memorial the dragon was enough not just to remind of the horrific nature of war and mans evil but still had the ability to scare anyone who walked close by (there are photos..) Moscow is a living muesem, with every building, square and street name telling a story and its one BIG story!
How to make your own St Basils Cathedral blue peter style...... all you need is a shoe box, 8 toilet rolls, 8 onions and some bright coloured paint.... get your mum to help you cut the 8 toilet rolls into different sizes, glue an onion on the top of each, stick the toilet roll onions towers onto the shoe box in a random order then paint the whole thing with bright colours and swirly patterns.... and there you have it! Alternatively go to Red Square where there is one they made earlier. Crazy place but kinda cool in its own unique way.
Books/Ipod - No time, serious site seeing to be done!!
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Rhian, I am not sure you're ready yet for a job with the Moscow tourist board, or with Blue Peter. I think you had better keep those eight toilet rolls for the train journey. And the onions.
Hope you are travelling soft class. If not, time to buy a cushion.
Have a fantastic journey and keep an eye open for Belgian detectives with waxed moustaches making TV series.
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