From Russia with love « benstephensworldtour

It's very large and in the middle is a temporary ice skating rink attached to the upscale GUM shopping mall which lines one of the long sides, with the massive brick wall of the Kremlin on the opposite side. Lenin's tomb is a serious black and brown granite building just across from the skating rink, but it's only open for three hours a day, only on certain days, and today's not my day. The next day the most amazing people check into the hostel. They're a Finnish couple ...