Last weekend Fredrik, Tanya and I went to Moscow for a 40-hour-Moscow-adventure. Tanya went there on Thursday and Fredrik and I followed on Friday evening.
When Tanya was going on Thursday morning she tried her best to surprise us both by checking the boarding time on her second boarding pass (from Vienna to Moscow) and not for the first leg, Zurich-Vienna, when setting the alarm clock the day before. When we woke up in the morning it was too late to catch the plane and we had to organize new tickets for a flight in the afternoon. We could at least book a return ticket for her next Moscow visit in two weeks (we only had Zurich-Moscow booked earlier) when booking a new roundtrip ticket.
Fredrik and I took the planned flight and arrived early Saturday morning to Sheremetyevo. Unfortunately our taxi driver was an hour late so the start of our Moscow was far from perfect.
Since we had access to our hotel room from 2 pm we went to Pavel, a friend to Fredrik, to get some rest. We went via Katya’s place, and picked up Tanya, before proceeding to Pavel and there we slept until noon. In the afternoon we checked in at our apartment hotel at 20 First Tverskaya-Yamskaya, and walked down Tverskaya towards Red Square. We had a massive lunch/dinner at Elki Palki at 5/6 Tverskaya. Tanya and I were there in May with our parents and it was great this time too.
After our over-eating-session we continued by foot to Red Square for some sightseeing and to restaurant Stolovoya 57 in GUM for some snacks and drinks. A sightseeing session in Moscow would not be complete without a visit to Arbat, so we did that before heading to Peter’s and Yana’s party. They live close to Paveletskaya so we could get there without problems. It was a great party with a nice mixture of Americans, Russians, and Swedes.
On Sunday Tanya and I met with Alexander, Irina, and Artiom at a Shokoladnitsa café close to our apartment hotel. It was nice to catch up with them but I noticed that my Russian has degraded this autumn since I have not spent as much time in Moscow as during spring time.
In the afternoon we took the train back to Zurich and it was nice to catch some sleep before going to office next day.