The Moscow metro (underground) had us a bit confused this morning as we headed out to the Cosmonautics Museum. The lines are different colours like the London Underground but the light blue, dark blue and general info boards all look the same colour (in addition to being in Cyrillic only). Red and orange lines seem to be random shades of each other. Someone needs to give these guys a Pantone chart for xmas !

The museum has an impressive 30 foot titanium swoosh with a rocket on top of it. Unfortunately it was closed ! (the LP guide is wrong). We’ll try again tomorrow. We then took a long walk in the drizzle around the ‘All Russia Exhibition Centre’. A real Soviet era 2km square exhibition to glorify the Soviet way with huge pavillions dedicated to various aspects of Russian economic strength and development. It has fallen into complete disrepair and shows just what a mistake the system was. The pavillions are now full of dodgy looking stalls selling imported junk from all over the world – Got a spare battery for our new camera (hope it isn’t fake).

At this point I got hit by a train (mentally) and vetoed the rest of the days plans. By 13h I was fast asleep at the hostel (for 3 hours). 4 weeks of daily excursions, endless walking and information overload from museums has finally got the better of me. V is fine. Must be the 5 years she has on me 🙂 V has nursed me back from the brink with tea and chocolates. Hopefully we’ll both be back to full speed tomorrow. We start the Trans-siberean on Thursday. Lots of time to chill out there.

V just showed me these for a bit of fun:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8579277.stm
http://m.boingboing.net/2010/06/01/the-dark-side-of-eng.html

– Posted from my iPhone