Todays entry concerns weddings. Customs vary across the world. For many it's a special day celebrated with friends. For others it's an elopement to the Little Chapel of Love in Vegas. But for Moscovites things follow a rather different routine.

Weddings, you see, happen very early in the day in Moscow. Why is that I here you ask ?

Well that's so that they can hare around the city in stretch limos all day desperately trying to ensure that they have their photo taken in front of every key monument in the city.

Fountain with ponies. Check

Tomb of unknow soldier. Check

Bridge looking over vast Peter the Great statue. Check

Lenins tomb. Check

The list goes on - but what makes this giant photo race all the more amusing is the quantity of brides jostling for position for the next photo.

My host and I spent a happy half an hour just standing watching the bridal carnage as it swept past...groom looking suitably hangdog and the rest of the bridal party desperately trying to keep up.

Perhaps made all the funnier if you then set these monuments within sea of general tourists that are already there.

It made for quite a sight !