April Drinking in Russia

So over the last few weeks since being back in Moscow we have been out a fair bit, either out in bars/restaurants or at our place, with friends, and also with family when they visited.  Now I have the Canon G11 I can take an ok photo when out with friends without taking the big SLR. So the main socialising you will see here are -

• Easter Sunday Egg decorating – Not as quaint as it sounds, it involved a lot of champagne, vodka, and Kahlua (for the Kiwis)
• Brunch at Turandot and the evening afterwards – So this started with the Turandot restaurant where you can get a lovely lunchtime buffet brunch, like most buffets except gourmet type food, especially the dessert.  All this and as much Champagne, Wine, beer, Spirits as you drink.  So I started taking pictures of the most drunk people, but as the day and night wore on this was mostly Dave, see if you can pick him out, you do get him dancing with one of the other guys at one point!
• Kiwis’ last night/Caro’s Birthday – Caro and Christy were here for three months and their ‘last’ night out obviously got a bit much for Christy if you see a few of those photos, well it was close to 4am by that point.  As it turns out the Volcanic Ash meant they couldn’t leave until a few days later,  bu this was the main celebration.
• Dinner with the in-laws for John’s birthday – Fairly quiet night but lot of beers, John was impressed with being able to smoke his cigars in the restarant as you can see.
• St Peterburg – We found an odd theme bar based on a Spy theme, and found the odd faces in the wall, Lou’s mum thought one of them looked like Lou’s Uncle Alan.  We found the only 50 Ruble (£1/$1.70) per pint pint beer we have found since being here and it was pretty nice, and the lovely meal with had at Stroganoff which saw me demolish a 2 litre bottle of their own beer, tasted lovely.

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