FUN-travel: Moscow – Day 3
July 8, 2014 by Susan Clarke
Day 5 – Saturday, July 5 – Moscow – blue skies w/ occasional big puffy clouds – 70’s – sunrise 0’dark:30 – sunset – after 10 pm
- 7:00 – typical morning
- 8:00 – breakfast – nice fresh fruit
- make sandwich to go
- 8:45 – bus departs for Kremlin tour
- No traffic!
- 9:30 – 1st sop – Armory museum – priceless collection of opulent treasures including weapons
- gem-encrusted armor
- gold & silver wares
- coronation thrones
- jewel studded crowns
- sable fur trimmed hats & capes
- ornate gowns w/pearls, silver & gold thread
- carriages
- & Elizabeth’s coronation sleigh (pulled by 23 horses)
- 12:00 – 2nd stop – Kremlin Regiment – changing of the guard – held only on Saturday’s in summer – includes both mounted Calvarymen & foot soldiers
- 12:30 – walking tour of grounds includes world’s biggest bell weighing 202 tons and biggest cannon never shot because the cannonballs weigh 1 ton each
- 1:30 – bus back to ship
- 2:00 – lunch
- 2:30 – nap
- 7:00 – dinner as usual
- 11:00 – sleeping pill
What I DON’T LIKE
- Having hard time getting over jet lag
FUN-fact – Kremlin means fortress and is a self-contained medieval city with palaces, armories, and cathedrals. It is enclosed by high walls 2.25 km long with 20 distinctive towers.
More FF – The Easter egg collection by jewelers Faberge each open to reveal amazingly detailed miniature objects – most famously a clockwork trans-Siberian train made of gold, platinum locomotive and ruby headlamp created to commemorate the completion of the Moscow-Vladivostok line.