1 Dec.
Moscow!Well, not quite. About to set off from the flat and catch the trainto the capital for my city-break holiday with Sam. I’m told byEvgenii that it is -25C today – WTF. I am literally scared to stepout.
Madeit to Vladimir station – about as ugly as they come. Before that Istopped off at the Torgovy Center and bought a pair of brown leatherwinter shoes with a fluffy lining. Hopefully these will achieve thedual purpose of preventing my toes from falling off with frost bite,and allowing me to gain entrance to Moscow’s exclusive clubs andbars. Somehow I think my walking boots wouldn’t go down to wellwith the ‘face-control’ policy.
Thatwas tense! Made it onto the train but not without a stressful fewminutes running between the platforms trying to locate the correctone! It was bloody confusing seeing as the departures board saidplatform 3 but the train to Moscow actually arrived on platform 2where it stopped for all of 1 minute. Wouldn’t want to miss a trainat this stage in my trip! I am now sitting opposite a rather largewoman with an incredibly ugly rat of a dog. Now just need to get toMoscow, pick up the keys, located the apartment, by vodka, lemons &tomato juice, have a big old drink and wait for Sam to arrive fromLondon. Madeit! Sam’s done well in choosing this place! Big old apartment,smartly furnished on Tverskaya St, close to Mayakovskaya metro. Iwent out and had a little look round our area. Bought some provisionsat the local, very swanky (expensive), supermarket. It seems we arestaying in quite a swish part of town. I suppose we should expect topay 3 times as much for everything here. Moscow is certainly massive,that’s for sure.
(c) Richard Breeson,
photos are taken from Richard's archive
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