We are back home in Huddersfield after two months in Moscow.
It will be my last visit during the Winter months!

It was a gruelling journey: 10am Moscow (7 am UK)
Morning rush hour traffic to a Moscow railway station - pleasant one hour train ride through the snowy suburbs and countryside to Domodedovo airport south of Moscow (cost £3 each)- Swissair A320 twenty minutes late taking off in a snow storm - 3 hour flight to Zurich - one hour connection reduced to 30 mins - dash through security (first class channel!)to be last to get on the airport bus - 90 minute flight to Manchester - romantic B/W movie moment walking across the tarmac into the terminal - one hour train ride to Huddersfield (cost £14 each) - taxi home.
8.15 pm (11.15 pm Moscow)

50 kg of luggage between the two of us.

Domodedovo is Moscow's newest airport. It is very big and very modern and serves all the internal flights as well as the international. A typical Russian experience was when we went into an airport shop to be told it was just closing for lunch! It would not have surprised me if the whole airport had closed for lunch - baggage checks, security, take off and landing etc. - all closed for lunch between 1 pm and 2 pm. Russians don't seem to be able to work out how to organise around this. Many offices close for lunch, banks do and a lot of smaller shops.

We had our first ever edible meal on a Swissair flight. That was a surprise. The red wine had only just defrosted though This is a problem on every airline I have been on. I tried sitting on it to warm it up but quickly realised that the steward had released the cap!
Saw our luggage being transferred onto our plane at Zurich - very reassuring.

Spent yesterday recovering and then stocking up the larder.
Disaster!!! Dishwasher broken. Probably sulking at being neglected for such a long time.

A friend called and said if we would take the Russian weather ( -4C) back where we brought it from then he would pay our tickets.

Graham