It is the Champions League final tonight and Manchester United are playing Chelsea in Moscow. Unlike a lot of European cities there is no history of short break weekends in Moscow as it takes over a month to get a visa. This means there are very few cheap hotels, no budget or charter airlines and little experience of a huge foreign influence. There are also few direct flights to help get the estimated 50,000 fans from England to Russia. They have been lots of weird and wonderful ways that people have had to take to make it. Flying Luton to Madrid, Madrid to Vienna and then Vienna to Moscow. Fly to Helsinki, ferry to Riga and then train to Moscow but my favourite was fly to Beijing and then train along the Trans-Siberian railway across the width of Russia. Where ever there is a major match the fans will get there.
What might the carbon footprint of this trip be?
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