Archive for September, 2008
On our flight from Moscow to Beijing we had a 5 hour stopover in Dubai. We went out of the airport to catch a cab that drove us around for 3 hours, these are the things we saw.
Descriptions are in the previous post
Writing this on the connecting flight from Moscow to Dubai, in about 12 hours we will be in Beijing.
Because both of us have been to Moscow before, most of our time was spent visiting friends and going out every night.
Moscow has extremely nice cosy small cafes and bars with reasonable prices, but the good places are always very hidden, often behind basement doors with no signs. Luckily, we had many FRIENDZ to show us these places! To get around we jumped the metro, or just hauled private cars for cheap cab rides.
Monday was a generic tourist attraction day to go see the kremlin and the red square.
Tuesday we entered the dorms of Moscow State University, which resides in an old beautiful building. (We got to the roof of the building through a window in a dorm room)
Wednesday we went inside an abandoned construction site, to get on top a skyscraper for a splendid view of the city.
Thursday and friday was spent at Sveta’s and Natasha’s and going out.
Saturday we went to an old cold war nuclear shelter situated 60 meters below ground, and after that we spent the night in front of the fireplace at Anyas datcha (summerhouse), an hours drive outside moscow (pictures are currently in development).
See you soon Forrest, Anya, Sveta, Natasha, Lisa, Rob, Olga, Philipp, Katcha, Andrei, Sasha and everyone else!
Descriptions to come…
After very little sleep we were locked and loaded to go at 6 AM.
Todays airline is Aeroflot, so we are accomodated with a breakfast onboard, including a fat lump of chocolate cake.
The first flight to go around the world takes off in 9 hours, but I haven’t started packing because I have a few unresolved work issues.
Most of my clothes are wet because I didn’t wash in good time, and hangovers from Fridays Goodbye/Masters party are still haunting.
Preparing for a world trip is really tough work :).
