Mother Russia!

The one we have been waiting for!!! 
After a basically sleepless night I caught my flight to Helsinki! The plane ride over again became another hilarious journey.. For shorter story.. I had a stop over in Prague and on the first plane I had to be the emergency exit person but fell asleep during take off so sorry if we had crashed folks! Landing I panicked when the exit sign lit up so stared at the pamphlet for ages and back at the door to work out what to do. The connecting flight involved me and some lovely guys from Israel making jokes on the plane to pass the time and cure our hangovers! And finally I arrived in Helsinki! What a strange place! It was never dark!! Or if it was it was a deep blue sky not black! It was still light at 11:30pm! Everyone helps you as much as they can they even go to such great lengths as to draw you a map!! Unbelievably nice! So I meet my contiki group.. Blah blah blah! And we set off for Russia!! I gotta say that I can't describe Russia that well! It's something you've really got to see for yourself! Getting into russia.. We were greeted by a four foot stunning lady with a look on her face that could kill! Once passed security we were in Russia.. Some part of Russia??? A long long drive later we were in St Petersburg!!! St petersburg was... Better than beautiful, awesome or amazing, stunning or any of these adjectives! I spent most of days walking around exploring the place on my own. Yeah. Russia isn't that scary. The people are nice when you talk to them and I noticed no one seemed to do the double take look at me (I felt pretty unattractive there) the women all dressed up in Hugh heels short skirts and were very slim. Lovely ladies! After having bad luck trying to find a sex museum to see rusputins penis but having a great experience with the locals trying to communicate what I wanted to see and having one woman even say to me "what!!? Where the hell do you come from and what have they told you!!?" in the end I never saw it. Lame! But i became captured with the stories of Peter the great and Catherine that were told by our guide. Then onto the next town we went.. Some dodgy mosquito infested place! You got the feeling you were getting closer to entering the belly of the beast. The next day however many hours it was later we arrived in Moscow! Moscow was like st petersburg's mean big brother. It actually gave me the chills to be alone there half the time.. The people seemed to look at you in a different way. One night a fellow traveller abs j decided to explore the night life and after having the sirens on us by the police cause we stopped in front of the KGB (big no no) we were helped by some locals to this bar/club that was terrible.. But great. They insisted on buying us drinks and after watching everything being poured we tried to give them money they refused and said they were offended by the offer. It's how it is over there. The night ended by us saying goodbye to our fellow friends and getting into a unofficial taxi who was an Italian man who couldn't speak Russian or English.. So there I am trying to direct this man in bad Italian in Russia?? How that worked I dunno.