Apparently Dr. Evil really does believe in world domination (Austin Powers citation). We're currently hanging out at the train terminal waiting for the train to downtown Moscow, and guess what? Starbucks is here!!
This is a brand new, shiny, barely opened train terminal with barely any terminals except Starbucks... Upon perusing the menu, it looks the same (despite the text in syrillic).
On this trip, A and I have exchanged 'tourist' roles. Last year, in Asia, he was the "foreigner" who was scrutinized by security... Now it's my turn... Our customs agent asked that I take off my glasses to match my face to my passport photo, then proceeded to run my name through a giant database (from what A could see) that took forever.. it was a 'hot' list, and he kept asking me "tourist?" I mean, obviously.
For all the warnings we read in the travel books and from friends that Russians can be aggressive (think being swarmed with 'taxi taxi') this is nothing compared to India. It's barely a murmur! We can totally walk past that (also helps that we have no clue what they're saying to us).
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