246:Summer in the City

My British Airways plane landed at Domodedovo International at 04.30 on Saturday 15th June. Because the first aero-express train doesn't leave until 06.00 I decided to take a scheduled coach to the nearest metro station (which, appropriately enough, is called Domodedovo). These coaches don't run to a timetable but only go when every last seat has been sold. It is a matter of luck whether you get on when it is almost empty or almost full. 
Anyway, we arrived at the metro stop at about 05.30. Metro stations open at different times in the morning, between 05.30 and 06.00, and this one opens each day at 05.40. I would say there was somewhere in the region of 100 people milling around waiting for the metro to open. Not bad for half past five on a Saturday morning! Mostly, I would suggest, immigrant workers heading into town to start their daily work.
Having got 'home' safely and snatched a few hours sleep, I decided to spend my Saturday having a wander. Here are some pictures taken not only on Saturday but on different days this week as I passed anything that seemed to me to be noteworthy.

St Basil's looked particularly fetching this morning basking in bright sunshine

The old British Embassy. The Ambassador and some Attaches still live there This is faintly amusing. It is a typical storage area for rubbish the like of which can be found outside many apartment blocks. The funny thing about this one is that on the left there is a sign saying that video cameras are in operation.	There were countless wedding cars on Bolotnaya (this is the place where sanctioned opposition protests are held. Not today! This is the view I had of the Kremlin when I worked in Moscow at the old British Embassy 1978-1980 Fountain outside Novokuznetskaya metro

For a video clip today I have chosen "Summer in the city" from the Lovin' Spoonful. It reached Number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1966.