Staying at: Travelers Guest House Moscow – not too bad – cheap and cheerful (unless you wake the nice lady at reception up by arriving at 7 am) Full of ‘travelers’, but don’t let that put you off.
Most interesting advice of the day: Bonnie Senteno – try to avoid hooking up with people you know in foreign countries, so that you can convince people that you work for the US Home Security Team and are hunting terrorists known to be infiltrating their country.
Most information found out from a stranger while waiting at a bar: petrochemicals, -50 C, Siberia, divorced 8 years ago, 18 year old daughter, 47 subjects in a degree, fine-art business plan, Moscovite living in Finchley. All over a small glass of coke. Maybe I just ask lots of questions.
Illness I’m convinced I have today: Hypochondria. Finally I have been diagnosed as having a proper disease, using the Whitely test