Feeling slightly refreshed after some sleep, we started our first full day in Moscow. We stopped at a cafe near the hotel where I had a chocolate, raisin and hazelnut crepe with some iced tea.

The first destination for the day was some sort of pedestrian street that Cynthia had read about, but we got distracted on the way there and walked down another street lined with identical soviet office and apartment buildings. At the end of that street, we decided to cross the Volga river to check out the Radisson hotel which is in one of seven large, identical old buildings scattered throughout the city. It contained extremely fancy bathrooms and a Rolls Royce dealership.

From there, we walked along the river for awhile, and eventually made it to another one of the seven buildings (which I think was the government foreign affairs building). From there we finally made it to the pedestrian street (which we walked around on). Had lunch at another (very smoky) cafe, where I had carbonara (#2) and some peach juice.

After lunch we did a self-guided tour of various cool subway stops on the Moscow metro. Common themes were armed guards, fancy soviet art and lots of people (although not as many as we expected, given the stories of how busy the metro gets). After our tour, we made it back to the hotel and the day was complete.