A Moscow State of Mind

It would be wrong to say that I’ve spent the weekend in Moscow, because most of my time has either been at the Eurovision Stadium, or at the various parties organised by each country, but I’ve been travelling around a fair bit both on foot and on public transport.

It’s impressive that on the escalators in the Metro nobody is running up one side, like you see in London – everyone just stands there. Okay they’re as long as the escalators at Angel, but still this is just weird. I also had to raise my eyes at the amount of wood panelling lining the escalators.

What else has caught my eye? The number of McDonalds branches, a single Clarks shoe store, and more people smiling around the city than you see in London. And late at night, with everyone out of the clubs, it’s a lot calmer than most UK cities.