Our attempt to see Lenin's Mausoleum, at the red square failed, since the entire square was closed on Thursday (nobody really knew why, just loads of armed men and women standing there guarding the place and not letting people in) and on Friday the man in question was out for his weekly sprucing up.
Instead we decided to check out Saint Basil's Cathedral, which lies at the edge of the square.It's actually not one church, but several small ones crammed into one big, colorful and surreal one.(Remember to bring your student card with you if you want to avoid the heftier adult price.)
Once again we we're blessed with extremely good weather, so we decided to just stroll along Moscow's wide streets and head towards Gorky Park to have an outdoor lunch in what we thought would be a serious and serene place.
The park turned out to be half amusement park, half concrete jungle, with not as much as the tiniest flower bed. We made friends with a crippled dove and listened to Christmas carols and hard core techno that kept blasting from the omnipresent loudspeakers.
We had dinner at a strange farm inspired Russian home cooking restaurant, out in a residential area and marveled at Russians who downed one vodka bottle after the other without even flinching.
In the evening we nervously headed towards the train station to catch the Beijing train. Eventually (after a lot of hassle and poorly pronounced Russian train travel related phrases later) we found the right platform and we could relax.
//R
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