We got our passports back this afternoon and only noticed by accident that the muppet who had processed our visas had managed to stamp it SEVEN times but forgot to actually sign them. So a speedy trip to the passport office and a three hour wait later we got ourselves sorted 15 minutes before the office closed, we'd have been rightly screwed! You gotta love the ridiculously overcomplicated Russian bureacracy!

So I've decided that mocking is catching and I'm not going to say anything about what could go wrong with our flights and just decide that we will be in Dublin at 8.45pm local time tomorrow evening...YAY, roll on Christmas!