ExSp33db1rd,
Good to hear from you again, I hope you are keeping well.
Your description of fun in Moscow was great. Do you have any more stories like that? I didn't get to Moscow until the late 1970s but have fond memories of the old Ukraina.
No bath plugs, no soap, no bog-bumph. Telephone calls from 'students' wanting to join the crew party to practice their English. Always welcomed in and plied with Scotch in the hope of inducing indiscretions - but always blokes, not pretty young girls.
And the dragon ladies at the end of each corridor looking much like Grandma from a Giles cartoon. And of course the never-to-be-missed appalling breakfasts downstairs, I could only stomach the hard boiled eggs and black tea from the samovar, everything else looked disgusting.
Happy days!