I decided to lie down and doze for a few minutes.  The next thing I knew my mobile phone alarm was going off at 13:00.  I’d slept for three hours!  Very rare for me when I’m on my travels.

It appears that I was the first of the backpackers to arrive so therefore I decided to spend the rest of the day being less touristy and try to gain an appreciation of how the majority of Moscow’s nine million inhabitants live.  It certainly was an eye opener!  Pavements are replaced with dirt tracks and stepping over train tracks, whilst the roads are full to bursting with all forms of Lada.

I spent virtually all day trekking up and down little side-streets off Dmitrovskoe.  There is a huge number a high rise flats in Moscow which seems to account for why it has a population of nine million but is geographically smaller than London.

Hardly anyone speaks English and in the regions I was walking through there were no cafés or restaurants either.  During the day I must have walked about twenty miles and only found a snack bar at 20:30.  I ordered two items that I thought were sausage rolls.  They weren’t.  I don’t know what they were either, or whether I even enjoyed them.  I had walked twenty miles in the baking hot sun without food for seventeen hours so it did the job!  I also got a can of ‘Baltica Export’ which was very nice and went some way to quenching my thirst.

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