Another early morning, another early flight and it’s off to Moscow. Our Aeroflot Tupelov TU-154 was comfortable and well attended. Aeroflot is the old Soviet commercial airline. Since the fall of communism, they’ve done a marvelous job of bringing the airlines into the 21st century. The flight was pleasant, uneventful and right on time into Moscow Sheremetievo airport by about 11 AM. After a quick stop at an ATM to get some Rubles we took a 90 minute cab ride through some of the most depressing apartments, stores, offices and just plain Soviet drech you can imagine. When we got closer to our hotel, which is within a few blocks of the Bolshoi Theater, Red Square and the Kremlin, the architecture looks more like late 1800’s Eastern Europe. It could be Vienna or Prague or Budapest.
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