Driving on the highway into Moscow while listening to Sergey Shnurov and his ska-punk band Leningrad
Expats who've come into Moscow from Sheremetyevo airport will recognize some landmarks from where the city limits meet the Moscow region, such as the Mega and IKEA stores. There is also a snapshot of a newly married couple continuing the Russian tradition of touring World War II memorials and other historic monuments on their wedding day.
Click on the extended post to watch another video, depicting the St. Petersburg-Moscow leg of the Mercedes-Benz E320 team's drive from Paris to Beijing.
A Russian carrying his bride across a bridge -
"it's good to marry a skinny bride and drive on a highway that doesn't have bridges!"
Mercedes E-320 teams pose with their cars in Red Square
"A colleague on the trip who spent time here in the 1980s told me that the city was dark and dreary. Well maybe then but not now - it's a bustling city with big-league traffic jams."
