Back in Edinburgh

Managed to get home without a mullet, shellsuit or Russian wife!



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Some random Russia related stuff...

Had one ridic night of drinking kicked off with awesome Cuban style Fajitas and pints of Mojito at Club Che, then some wierd ex-pat bar with awesome live music which was full of stunning Russian women... that all turned out to be hookers (we think). A taxi ride from some drunk Russian later ended up having to get out after he almost knocked over some guy on the street. The dude lived, and showed us to an unlimited vodka club (for £6 entry lol) where things got ridic messy and ended up with one of my mates going back to our hostel wasted and pissing off everyone in our dorm... while another mate passed out and had to spend a night in a Russian hospital. Ended up getting in the ambulance there and a couple of us sorted things out and crashed in the hospital til the morning. Waking up sleeping on some consultation table in wet clothes after 4 hours sleep in a 70's Russian hospital ftl.

We missed our sleeper train to Moscow by 1 minute! Actually saw the train pull away from the platform as we sprinted for it. Spent a little too much time drinking at an awesome nuclear bunker themed bar called Lenin. Sweet.

Speaking of Lenin we also visited Lenin's Tomb at the Kremlin and saw his preserved mummified body. Pretty surreal, one of the creepiest things I've seen. There were a ton of super serious Russian guards surrounding the tomb keeping everyone moving past the body silently. One of them tapped my arm and told me to take my hands out my pockets, pretty hardcore.

Russian history is crazy awesome, read the history stuff in the guide books we had but will need to grab some more in depth books to read. The revolutions in the 1900s in particular are really interesting, it's incredible the way it's changed over the last 100 years.

Saw some Da Vinci paintings at The Hermitage which was cool, place was insanely huge... pity we didn't have a lot of time in it after queuing for over 2 and a half hours!

Ate at a Russian sushi place in Moscow on our late night which was fantastic. 2nd best sushi I've ever had (to Vegas).

Oh, and the Moscow Cat Theatre is in motherfucking NY, not Moscow! Guess I'll need to hit up NY pretty soon.

I feel like grinding, but got a ton of stuff to sort out. I'm moving to my aunt's this weekend to house-sit for her for a few weeks, that should be cool. Then after that I've not got flat sorted out in Edinburgh, so hopefully something will come up or might head back to to Asia or to South America or something to live for a while.

Poker related stuff to come soon, I'm sure...