Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek?

Well, I'm back. Got back Saturday night, matter of fact.

The flight to Brussels was pretty nice. The nicest flight I've ever been on, in fact. Business Class was actually First Class on this flight since there was no First Class. The seats were large and leaned pretty far back. There was a TON of legroom...so much so that if the guy in front of my put his seat all the way back I still couldn't touch it with my foot. Also, a legrest popped up which was very nice.

On this flight, we were given portable DVD players with a dozen or so movies. One was, of course, "Good Night and Good Luck" which I had just paid to see. I watched "The Last Samurai", eventually. I thought it was good. For most of the flight I read, so I started the movie late and it was about 98% done by the time the machines were automatically shut down due to landing.

Another nice thing about the flight was the food. I think we were constantly eating. Drinks whenever we wanted too, and as much as we wanted. I sat next to a colleague from work and we talked a little but mostly read and watched movies. We landed in Brussels and spent a short time at the airport getting to our next gate. The flight from Brussels to Moscow was on a smaller plane but the Business Class seat (again, no First Class on this flight) still had a good amount of room. By the time I landed in Moscow (something like 5pm local time, 9 hours ahead of Chicago) I had been awake for quite a while.

We got off the plane and I picked up my bag. Then, we had to find our driver who was to take us to the hotel. Luckily, the local office had arranged a car and driver so we just had to look for the sign with our company's name on it. The problem was...the guy didn't speak English at all. Luckily, to get to the hotel he didn't need to, but he did keep trying to tell us stuff we didn't understand, and vice versa. We're not even sure we understood the guy's name correctly.

The hotel was nice. We ended up meeting up with a guy from Swindon who was also there from work, so we had dinner with him and discussed the situation in terms of the engagement and how it would all go. I think I had some kind of beef dish. This was an 'authentic' restaurant that was located in the hotel. The pop came in small bottles. I don't think anywhere we ate at had fountains for soda.

(more later)