Okay, it was well after noon, I didn’t wake until about 4:30.

I took a shower, but did not have any shampoo or soap. Most American and European hostels have some or at least some other guest has theirs in there that I can steal a bit. A shower without soap is still better than no shower at all. It really did feel better to get rinsed off and get clean clothes on.

As with most hotel/hostel showers, this was one that either was freezing or scalding. There is no in between. Why do they pick these controls that are so hard to figure out. Hot water control and cold water control, that’s what they need. Simple. Stop all this one handle does everything BS. Alton Brown may have a dislike for mono-taskers, but I think he’d agree with me on this point.

With the large number of people who spend long periods in airports, I wonder why they don’t have pay showers. It seems to me a good income source. Maybe some do, I just never saw any.

There is a nearby restaurant with “modern Russian food.” I order 3 crêpes, totally Russian, those French must have stole the idea. Right?

One is meaty like stroganoff, the second is filled with a sweet cream, the third has red caviar. Yes, I’m extravagant. They are all good, but the caviar is too salty. If I say something is too salty, you should believe it, as I like salt on most everything. Perhaps if I had eaten that one first, while I was hungrier, I could have finished it.

Since I now had a fully charged map device, I looked at my Google map and picked the first saved location. I was going to go see Lenin. No, not Lenin, Lennon, the bloke from Liverpool. There is a small alleyway that is decorated with drawings and paintings on the walls of the Beatles.

I walked along admiring the sites. Occasionally looking at the map or taking a photo of some interesting building.

I was looking, but didn’t see it. I walked back a bit, with the map open, and went down it.

There was just an ordinary area between two buildings, then a gate. There was a small group ahead of me that stopped at the gate, which was chained. They turned around and left. I did the same.

I don’t know if the artwork was past the gate or if it had been removed, but I was disappointed. My first item was a strikeout.

Nothing else was nearby, and it was starting to darken, so I picked a different route and headed back.