"Ice Cold in Moscow" Sranmal's photos around Moscow, Russia
Тип: Забележителности
Добавено от: Videоguide
Добавено на: 05.05.2011
Държава: Русия
Населено място: Москва
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Moscow, Russia by TravelPod blogger Sranmal titled "Ice Cold in Moscow". TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Sranmal's travel blog entry: "Packing list: Shorts - check, factor 40 suntan lotion - check. Weather on arriving in Moscow - just above freezing. A classic case of mis-packing. Fortunately, I catered for all eventualities and also brought along my coat and woolly hat. After a 3 hour coach overnight coach trip to Heathrow, a broken down plane and rescheduled flight 5 hours later (cheers British Airways), I finally arrived at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. I had arranged an airport transfer and despite phoning the transfer company up and telling them about my delayed flight, I found the extremely bored looking taxi driver who was holding my name up had been waiting for me for 5 hours. By the look of him, I was depriving him from a night of heavy vodka drinking and fighting. I was staying at the Izmailovo Vega. The Izmailovo hotel chain was built to house the athletes during the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Fortunately, the hotel was in much better condition than the filthy Athletes Village for the CW Games in Delhi which has been in the news so much recently. My room was very nice, which was just as well considering what they charged for it - in a survey I saw recently, Moscow was supposed to be the most expensive city in the world! Russia is the largest country in the world, with a population of 142 million people ...