Day 1, Moscow and London Airports

Well, first off, this blog is late, but better late than never. It's been crazy trying to get everything finished, and getting the banks to work with us (snarl) but more on that later.

So on to the real beginning,

Moscow is fun, if you have a three hour layover and some charming conversation partners. If you need to make a connecting flight in less than two hours, it would probably be just a frightening experience. The terminals are confusing, the people are scary, the old terminal looks like something straight from a B rate cold war movie. But we met a cool Estonian and we had a nice conversation. So the low down on Moscow airport, avoid if possible. The pics are not really representative of the place, but they are pretty, so enjoy.

We we there at sunset so the light was really nice, gotta take those opportunities when you have them. The airport itself is kinda in the middle of nowhere and we did get to walk on the tarmac and, I think, just being in the airport might be enough to give you a feel for the country, so we have officially listed it as a country we've visited.

Of course then it was onwards to London Heathrow International Airport. Our flight was late (btw if you can avoid flying with the Russian airline Aeroflot, that's probably a good idea too. Essentially no inflight entertainment, and the food was some of the worst I've ever eaten. The flight attendents are rather scary too.) and probably because we arrived late, there were only two Immigration lines open to begin with, and three airplanes had landed at about the same time. And so a half hour late flight, and an hour and a half immigration meant we just missed the last train from Heathrow. Since taking a taxi from the airport would cost more than 1 night at our hotel we decided to ....

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I apologize for the video quality, I had to convert it to .avi because the file is too big and I don't have time to do it well. So that was us, our first day