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There’s a whole fridge of that.
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5th Oct 2019 3:23 pm
Down&Dirty
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Should keep her happy then MY24 Defender 90 X-Dynamic HSE
MY18 Disco 5 HSE Santorini Black Now Gone.
5th Oct 2019 3:26 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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She’s happy now!!! Turn down service left these. 😁
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And as we all know all too well, a happy wife is a happy life.
5th Oct 2019 3:56 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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In reality it’s piddling down and cold but we’ve got a lot of walking planned today.
6th Oct 2019 7:13 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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And greetings from a very wet & chilly Moscow. It’s been raining & sleeting all day, totally yuck weather! This was the general scene most of the day when out doors.
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And the hotel put a Union Flag up just for us, well prob us as the hotel is pretty empty. It looks a bit sad.
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We took the Metro to the Museum of Cosmonauts (or something like that), well it was interesting, warm & dry.
We found where the Wrong Trousers ended up!
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And shouldn’t these chaps we warming themselves off the heat shield?
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Cute moon rover, Lunerhod 1 (or something like that). I think that’s about as far as the Soviets got re going to the moon.
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And a 3 person Soyuz capsule. You wouldn’t want to be my size and claustrophobic!
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Then out into the sleet & rain.
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Lenin still looking for some revolutionary moves from the peeps. No chance today.
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And a few aviation exhibits up at the other end of the park.
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And the Soviet version of the Shuttle. Not sure if it’s just a mock-up but the real one is in a park somewhere, plus a couple half built in an abandoned factory.
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By this time getting cold & grumpy, heading back to the Metro passed a rather busy looking cafe so dived in. Excellent soup & Cornish-ish pasties. Really warmed things up.
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Back in hotel, nice and warm with coats hanging over the bath drip drying. Should be nicer weather tomorrow to hike to Red Sq.
6th Oct 2019 12:29 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
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Drink Vodka like the citizens of Moscow do and the weather isn’t a problem.
Enjoying the pics. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
6th Oct 2019 2:01 pm
Moo D3 Decade
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DSL wrote:
Loving the ad lights, burgers ordred!
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Yay D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
6th Oct 2019 3:47 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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So good they named it twice.
6th Oct 2019 3:55 pm
Pelyma
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If you want to be like the locals you’ll need to look at some Cathedrals DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
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6th Oct 2019 4:10 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Will see what tomorrow brings. We like churches (big and small) from the outside but don’t tend to go in.
6th Oct 2019 4:23 pm
Pelyma
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It’s well known that Russian’s love to come to the UK to look at Cathedrals Del, particularly Salisbury.DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
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6th Oct 2019 4:36 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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And they all know how high it is. Now I get the jist.
Shhhhh though, I’m supposed to behave on here.
6th Oct 2019 6:24 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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A few pics from around Red Square & The Kremlin.
Our first view of St Basil’s from the bridge across the Moscow River.
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Some gold domes in the other direction.
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St Basil’s.
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At first Red Sq was closed off with what looks like preparations for some sort of harvest festival. Lots of guards on the barriers. They had their work cut out keeping the groups of Chinese tourists at bay. And they were way undermanned!
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We took the shortcut through the GUM department store/Harrods of Moscow, credit card stayed firmly in wallet. Lots of peeps also using it as a shortcut, not a lot of peeps buying.
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A view the Sq from the other side, still shut off.
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Then round to Alexander park and the memorial to the sacrifices of WW2. The guards were motionless apart from their eyeballs, they were watching everyone.
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One of the streets had a whole row of tractors, which could be sat on/in by little ‘uns of all ages. This was the cutest.
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Once we’d had a bit more wandering, we found that you could now get into Red Sq at certain security screening points so we headed in. Obligatory pano shot of the Kremlin and shot of Lenin’s Mausoleum. It was closed today, we’ll see if we want to go tomorrow but it either means leaving our bags in the hotel or somewhere there, not exactly ideal.
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Then back to hotel. Feet were sore and we decided to have a half day and a bit of slobbing for the afternoon. Or train to Beijing is at 23:55 tomorrow, we’ll past our bedtime. It’s going to be a long day, at least we don’t need to be out of the hotel until 2pm. Then 10 hours until the train leaves. We’ve no idea when we’ll be able to board the train, google was unless, but at least there’s a supermarket near bye for supplies on the train.
7th Oct 2019 5:01 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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Is this the famous trans-Siberian railway your going on Derek? I just google mapped Moscow to Beijing and it reckons 5 days on the train with 31 stops! Are you doing it in one hit?
7th Oct 2019 7:20 pm
kajtzu
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Location: Helsinki
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On the orient express it’s the butler who did it. Do let us know whom of the comrades it’s over there.
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