well good morning guys it feels like every other day I'm saying welcome back to Jakarta
but I am here in Jakarta because today's the day I'm flying to Moscow so I came here late
last night because I knew that I needed to pick up a suit for my wedding which I didn't
have and my wedding is next Saturday uh and I still didn't have a suit so I had to come
to Jakarta because obviously in Bali you can't really buy things like suits and things that
are very nice so I came to Jakarta and I have my suit and I'm ready to head onto Moscow
let's go
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okay let's get real from it then so going to Moscow now obviously is not the most ideal
thing and probably not the first place on a lot of people's uh bucket lists right now
but obviously I've got friends and family that are in uh in ninja which is six hours
away from uh from Moscow by car but obviously I am a little bit nervous about going to Russia
right now with everything that's going on I don't fear for my safety at all if I'm honest
but I just fear for any kind of issues with any politics or immigration kind of issues
um and I have been a little bit risky because obviously I'm going to be trying to Vlog it
which is not going to be very well like and I'm also traveling into the country with a
drone which is which is apparently forbidden as well but I'm not 100 sure if that is forbidden
definitely forbidden to to fly a drone in Moscow but um I'm wanting it for my travels
afterwards so I'll travel with it now so there are a few things on very con I'm very nervous
about about traveling into Russia now so yeah just being real with you guys as we go through
this journey together either but as I'm here now in terminal three I've got a couple of
hours before I can even check my bag in so the beauty of being here is there are loads
of restaurants loads of options so I'm gonna go and find some food now in one of these
many many options and just uh kill away this next hour and a half eating pretty standard
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Mr Matthew yes I'm wondering whether it would be possible to be uh to sit in the emergency
seat aisle because I'm usually quite tall on the plane
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okay checked in one of the only Airlines to give you upgraded leg room if you are just
asked for it they're usually pretty kind because I'm pretty tall so I've got emergency exit
leg room I was asked to show my onward ticket leaving Russia just fair enough I've got a
ticket to dublise in Georgia a week after I arrive into Russia so I've got all that
all I've got to do now is get through security and then we can check out the rest of this
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such crazy fast speed internet well mine is not working what's worse is I literally just
sat down thinking oh I'm going to be able to show off and show you how good the internet
is here because they're literally Plastering it everywhere how good the internet is and
it didn't work at all the first leg of the journey was no issue at all as expected I
had a comfy seat some reasonable food and they're all important extra leg room but then
we arrive in Abu Dhabi and begin to board the flight to Russia this is where things
started to go downhill quickly I should have known something was wrong when I was immediately
told off for filming as we boarded the flight so please do not record you are not allowed
the flight itself was pretty uneventful but as we approached Moscow we were all including
the residents given a declaration form to fill in declaring where you would be staying
and how long you were in Russia for it also asked for a covered test that was in the last
72 hours which I didn't have I decided not to fill this in and just to see what happened
when I went through immigration this brings me to the next adventure the immigration line
was short but I've never in all of my travels witnessed the process takes so long they were
scrutinizing passports and photographs soon enough though it was my turn after being eyed
up very suspiciously I got the dreaded thumb down which meant I had to move out of the
queue and wait until someone took me into the holding pen for some further checks I
have to be honest I was pretty surprised that the casualness and somewhat an organization
of it all all of us that had been rejected and there was quite a lot were just left to
sit in the area just behind the immigration Zone one by one people began to be taken into
little interrogation rooms nearly two hours passed before it was my turn and to be honest
this park was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting I was simply asked where I was going
where had come from my purpose for the visit and how long I was going to be here once I
explained I was meeting my fiance they asked me for her details and they chilled out quite
a lot then they did something on my phone which I couldn't see but it was only for a
few minutes but after this wait a little bit longer as the type took this information and
then I was allowed to go through immigration one more time successfully this time yay yay
through two hours later and then this was actually my next concern like where's our
bags gonna be but fortunately it looks like they just get done by the side let's go find
our bag hello which one is uh Abu Dhabi bye thank you thank you
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okay there we go finally after all that travel finally arrived in Central Moscow now just
out sitting outside the airport about to get a taxi into the center not too bad I was expecting
that to be a lot worse that wasn't too bad it was time consuming but just a lot of sitting
around but the questions they're asking they were not too in-depth you know they're just
asking what I did in Bali why I live in Bali what I'm doing here in Moscow where I'm going
how long I'm staying for you know the normal question so it wasn't too bad not intimidating
at all the guy was really friendly um just a protocol you know with the with the situations
going on now but not not bad at all so here we are in Russia finally back after so many
years I'm really excited to have a good look around Moscow right now so uh hopefully you'll
subscribe and you'll be able to see my first impressions of Moscow since everything's been
uh been going on so yeah peace out guys I'm gonna see you in another video thanks very
much for watching hopefully this has been helpful if you are coming to Russia at one
point peace
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