Had I known Putin was going to invade Ukraine with so much certainty, I would have skipped Moscow as the next destination but it happened. It’s not the Russian people’s fault and they don’t deserve to be punished over something trivial.
Above is the city’s flag which oddly has an image of St. George slaying a dragon. I never thought the Russian or Moscovites (sic) were partial to the myth. They’re not. Moscow only adopted this design in the mid-Nineties. I guess they went shopping at Flags R Us when Boris Yeltsin was in charge saw this and decided, yeah, how about it? Does it come in the popular colors teal and purple? Could you add a dinosaur because we really enjoyed Jurassic Park like Toronto? No. OK, this will do, wrap it up.
My next destination on the agenda is a city that’s been less controversial since 1945, Tokyo! It is over 6500 miles from my house and the progression will be harder. I will need to get in 12 miles a day just to make the dent of a mere two percent. Tokyo may take me the rest of the Spring.