Moscow - Part 7

Saturday, 23 April 2016, 9 am

My last day in Moscow! My flight was only at 8 pm and I had to leave the hotel at 4 pm. So I could either just relax or go on another excursion. My worry was that since I was alone today, I would get lost somewhere (knowing me) and would not be able to make it back in time.

By now I was already friends not only with Mr. Doorman but also with Ms. Concierge who (wrongly) thought that I was very young, and therefore very brave to come to a foreign country alone. If only she knew. 

Of course I couldn't just sit still in my hotel. This is me, after all. So I did the Scorpions song:

"Follow the Moskva,

Down to Gorky Park..."

First, the horrid metro where everything is in Russian. To match the wordings in the map with the wordings in the metro, I had to literally match the shape of the words as the Russian alphabet is totally different and foreign to any of the alphabets I know. 

Luckily from the map, and from my enquiries at the hotel, the station I needed to get out at was only 3 stations away from the station nearest to my hotel, called Park Kulturi. And it was on the brown line so I didn't need to change lines. Good luck to me.

I went to the machine and the only thing I recognised was numbers so I pressed '1' hoping that it meant I wanted 1 ticket. Thank God that was correct. Next, to find the right train. Which means matching the name of the station I was going to, with the names in the metro. Feel like a kid again matching shapes. Luckily I chose Saturday to explore alone because there wasn't the usual rush hour / work crowd on the metro. 

It costs 50 roubles for a one way ticket anywhere on the metro, which is about RM3.