It is Friday 5:18 AM in Moscow, the capital city of Legendary Russian Federation. It is 10:58 PM, Saturday, in New York city, capital of the world.
I am a member of a crowd of 60 that have made it to the 2018 World Cup Adventure. We have been here for 48 hours, it feels like 48 weeks. We have been too busy touring the capital and living the dream of being at a World Cup. We have had no real or virtual time to post on the magnificence of the city and intensity of the event. It is just overwhelming.
Michael, the limo driver, picked me up at 8:50 PM, from Warrenville. We arrived at JFK International Airport, in Queens, NY, at 21:20. Thanks God! We hit no traffic. Checking at the Aeroflot counter and clearing security involved queuing for one full hour.
During the next three hours, it was a joyful reunion, at Gate 47, of Terminal 1. Guess what, some of these faces, I have not seen them since the last World Cup in 2014. Some look like the same, some look 4-year older. Weird!
Aeroflot Russian Airlines, Flight # SU 123 Q, took off at 1:30 AM. The Boeing 777-300 flew 4661 miles, i.e., 7502 km, carrying about 250 passengers. It landed at SVO (Sheremetyevo International Airport) nine and half later. The crew was entirely Russian. Communication was bilingual.
The comfort and the service onboard deserve a solid B+. Aeroflot is one of the oldest airlines in the world. It has been around since 1923, while Lenin was running the country. After the fall of communism, it was revamped. It is now semi-private, owned at 51% by the Russian government.
On the ground, a fleet of buses picked us from the tarmac and took us to the Terminal D. SVO has been clearly completely renovated. For the World Cup, it was transformed into a modern and beautiful venue. Clearing immigration was a breeze. During the World Cup, your Fan ID holds as a visa. Genial, isn’t it?
It took us a long while to leave the airport. A couple missed a piece of luggage. The two buses did not have enough luggage room for our heavily traveled 60. We had to replace one bus. Our two young guides, Nicholai and Feydor, were being tried and tested.
On the way to the hotel, we stop at the Nicholas II monument for a vintage group picture. Traffic was moderate. The police stopped our bus. They were kind of embarrassed when we told them that we are “mostly doctors and nurses from the US…” They looked at the list of names in our travel brochure, shook hands and wished us a great party at the World Cup. It was already 9:00 PM. Moscow is seven hours ahead of New York.
The restaurant where we had our dinner reservation, Trattoria Moderna, is located next to our hotel the Palmira Business Club. Dinner was slow to come but delicious. Check-in was unrushed but liberating. We hit bed at around midnight with our mind filled with dreams of a wonderful World Cup in the Legendary Russia Federation.
From the Palmira Business Club, this is the Traveller, reporting from Moscow, capital of the former Soviet Union…
(Odler Robert Jeanlouie, Friday June 22, 2018)
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