Traffic, Dinner and a Hotel Switch
We spent our first night in Moscow at Buddy Bear Hostel on the southwest part of the Garden Ring. The Garden ring is the second of several ring roads around the centre of Moscow. This road was our first introduction to the insanity of Moscow traffic. The Smolensky Blvd is not a highway and has many traffic lights and bumper to bumper traffic with double and triple parked cars along the sidewalks. And 14 lanes. That’s right 14. Our hostel room window fronted onto this road and I counted 14 separate lanes of wall to wall traffic at 11:30pm. With no median between the centre lanes. Insanity. Total insanity.
