Moscow Metro Art

We caught the Metro to visit Lenin in his mausoleum on Red Square.

Each Metro station is elaborately decorated.

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Moscow, Russia

To Moscow

Our three nights on the Trans Siberian Railway were spent socialising with Russian and international travellers,

gazing at misty forests

and Soviet era buildings,

and buying supplies from babushkas selling wild berries,

whole smoked fish, homemade dumplings and fox hats on the station platforms.

A Day at the Beach in Siberia

A day trip from Irkutsk to the beach on Lake Baikal featured a walk through the village

and market.

We bought pine nuts in honey, dried fruit and smoked fish.

The Putin babushka doll contains Gorbachev, Yeltsin and so on.

We ate fish on the beach, but didn’t swim.

The Sights of Irkutsk

Irkutsk, Russia

Over two nights on the train, we travelled into Russia with views of lakes and clusters of wooden Siberian cottages.

In Irkutsk, our hostel is surrounded by old wooden houses, and it has a bust of Lenin in the backyard.

Siberia is chilly.