I swear, I'm not obsessed with Pushkin. The Russians are obsessed with Pushkin. I'm just an innocent bystander.

Munich is cool. Berlin blows Munich away. I mean, it depends on what you're looking for, but Berlin has to be one of the best cities I've ever visited. I can go on at great length about how wonderful Berlin is, especially because it has my favourite art gallery ever. Not so much for the palaces, though.

The train we took back to Moscow wasn't nearly as cool, but it was named after the Aurora, so points for that.