Moscow Parks

Got the shits with our dodgy hotel so ask for a refund on our last night and moved to the amazing Soviestky Historic hotel situated 20 minutes out of the city ($120 per night inc breakfast). It has hosted a lot of dignatories including Maggie Thatcher, Pierre Cardin, Arnold Swazernegger, Gandi, Breshnev, Stalin and now.... us!! The rooms were in 1950s Soviet style and enormous. The bathroom was bigger than the entire room of our last hotel.

There was a bell in the room to call the maid and the butler !!

After spending a heap of money yesterday, we consulted the "free things to do" web sites and discovered Moscow has a lot of beautiful parks, so we chose Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, a park with a palace (of course), gardens and lakes.

Felt like a king and a 4 star day.