In June 2010, I did a train tour of Scandinavia that ended in Russia. For my departure, I made the mistake of booking a very early flight and the airport in Moscow is over an hour outside the city.

Unless you had my taxi driver.

Yup. It was three in the morning, pouring rain and the road was more like a back country secondary road than an interstate. And my taxi driver was in a bigger hurry than I was.

He did 160 kph all the way.

I was too afraid to ask the driver to slow down. I didn’t want to distract him.

He made the trip in forty minutes. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – Moscow, Russia” →