After a more relaxed day in St. Petersburg, the inevitable approached and it was time to leave the relatively safety of latinised transliterations and head to Moscow, and so the train-ing began.
The short walk to the station made for a long wait there (okay so maybe we planned in a little too much just-in-case allowance) but we used the time improving our Cyrillic with the help if the map of the train network on the wall and our phrase book. Rhys even managed to have a conversation (ok, so one question and answer, but still) with a small child (whose mother helped us understand the train announcements). After that it was a walk the length of the platform to get to carriage number 1 of train number 1, the red arrow. It was an excellent introduction to Russian train travel and even included breakfast.
Now we're in Moscow and have found the Hostel (of which more later) we're looking forward to seeing what the capital has to offer.
Morning in Moscow.
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