Two outta three aint bad

We have to start with.... go Russia! Eurovision is on tonight, and Russia has made it into the final. It's very exciting to be here, we'll be at a Eurovision party!

Soviet experts have embalmed 3 'great' leaders - Ho Chi Minh, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and we've now seen two of them. (We didn't head overseas to do this intentionally, that would be a little bit creepy, but they're pretty big tourist attractions)

Lenin's mausoleum was just as strange as Ho Chi Minh's. But not nearly as busy. We were told that many Russians don't like to visit his body, as his wish was to be buried alongside his mother, and they think that many of the bad things that have happened to Russia since Lenin's death are because he is not buried.

Just like Uncle Ho, Lenin was looking pretty waxy, and maybe a little bit fake.



(the photo above wasn't taken by us... you're not allowed cameras in there. but we promise that we'll get some of our photos from the last month online asap)