Continued from below.

anyway, lenin was closed agin today. About an hour later I realised why. He was up and about and wandering around by St Basils cathedral, yep, that's right, he was up and about and wandering around. As I recall from historical pictures he was shorter and fatter than he used to be , and he was pimping himself to anyone who wanted to be pictured with him! I guess on the tat factometer it would be like some old girl dressing jup as Queen Victoria and poncing up an down outside Buckingham Palace offering pictures to American tourists.

going back to taxi journey, passed by some really drab looking parts of moscow (most of it). One really curious thing about moscow is the complete lack of public toilets - don't know if that is because crowds were never allowed to congregate? anyway, now there are loads of portaloos in groups of 2-12 all over the place, but these are manned by toilet babushkas who charge 15 roubles - 30p - to use a pretty clean public convinience. seems ok to me.

Saw a new concept in underground begging - young men with no legs in wheelchairs - I guess having been blown off from the war in Chechnya or something (saw about 4 in total) - one only seemed about 20 and had massive bandages which I am sure had bloodstains on. wierd, don't quite know what to make of that.

well I guess that is about it as far as the actual blog goes - served its purpose quite nicely for me! Though, gonna write a summary when I get a moment over the next few days. Might just keep this thing going for posterity though.