- Really loving the Sapsan
service here in first class, it's just incredible. Probably the best first class
I've ever had on a train. This is on a train, can you believe this? Welcome back to St. Petersburg in Russia, Moskovsky Station, which
can only mean one thing. We're about to take a ride on another super cool Russian train. Now today, we're taking
a train down to Moscow. And we're not just taking any train. We're taking the Sapsan, which is Russia's high-speed bullet train. It does the 700 kilometer journey from here in St. Petersburg down to Moscow in just four hours. Now, the Sapsan travels at speeds of up to 155 miles an hour. A normal car journey from here
in St. Petersburg to Moscow would take eight hours. The Sapsan does it in just
four. It's incredible. So I'm looking forward to
getting a ride on it tonight from here down to Moscow. Just time for me tea. All right, so there's a
train that's going soon from St. Petersburg Station, and that's ours, the 775
to Moscow, high-speed. I haven't got platform just yet. Just waiting for it to be assigned. And then we can have through
to get on board the Sapsan. All right, we have a
platform. Platform number 11. Let's go. Here it is then, the Sapsan
train is gonna take me down... So this way. It's gonna take me down
from here to Moscow. Looking forward to it. And of course, if we're doing
the Sapsan down to Moscow, we've gotta do it in style. We're doing it in first class today. And I'm in carriage one seat 007. - The name's Bond. James Bond. - Shaken not stirred. 'Cause I'm sure I will be
by the time I get to Moscow. Just waiting for them to open doors now. Seven on board, they're really comfortable
Sapsan first class, look at this. Incredibly spacious, and they've given us blankets and pillows. Lovely Sapsan pillow here. Branding all around. Look at the seat. And then we'll talk about the
seats a little bit later on, but look at this. This is on a train. Can you believe this? Reclining controls and everything, And an absolute ton of
leg room. I love this. It's about four hours tonight then, the train down to Moscow,
so looking forward to it. So we've got a little
amenity kit here as well. I think it may just be
slippers. I'm not sure. Should we have a look? Let's have a see. Oh, wow! So we got some gorgeous
gentlemen's slippers. Should have brought my
smoking jacket, really, shouldn't I? And then we've got... Wow! Look at this amenity kit. I can't wait to go through that later. Sapsan. Sapsan actually means
peregrine falcon, by the way, in Russian, a little bit of
Russian trivia for you there. One of the few words that I have learnt on this journey to Russia. So yeah, oh, peregrine falcon. Awesome. - [Announcer] The train
leaves in five minutes. Please check your tickets and luggage. - So we're tanking along now at more than 200 kilometers an hour. Now we've left St. Petersburg. First service has come around, cheese and wine and stuff, very cold. Look how fast we're moving, look. quick show you around the seat while I'm waiting for dinner. Set the table, obviously, as you can see, pops out from down there. We've got a bit of a,
ooh, light over there. On this side, you've got
the controls for the seat. And here, I'm popping
out from down here... Is the entertainment system
which is pretty cool. It's all in Russian and not
quite sure how to change it, but hey, it's pretty
cool, though, isn't it? Personal TV on a train. And then down here, that's a power port, which is pretty cool. So I'm gonna plug in and
charge some of my devices in a little while. Seat soulfully reclines. All the way back here. It's not a flatbed, don't really need a flatbed
for a four-hour train, but it's pretty decent
as far as trains go. And of course, you get your
sort of duvet and pillow and everything to try and
sleep as well if you want to, which I might do in a little
while once the sun goes down. But so far, really loving the Sapsan
service here in first class. It's just incredible. Probably the best first class
I've ever had on a train. Let's get some wine drunk. So dinner has arrived, and we've got chicken
salad for the starter, followed by chicken for the main course. Looking forward to this,
looks really delicious. It's really good. Let's try this. It's really good, really nice. All right, let's, should we
have a look at this amenity kit? Let's have a look. See what we've got inside it. We have a comb, a shoehorn, eye mask, a few bits and bobs,
toiletries and the like, and a dental kit as well. It's pretty decent. It's a four-hour train ride,
you get an amenity kit, it's so cool. Well, there you go. The Sapsan first-class amenity kit to add to my collection. So we have two stops on tonight's train down to Moscow. And some of them go direct. Tonight's going through
a place called Bologoye and a place called Tver,
which is a bit further down. And this is our first stop, Bologoye. So second to the last stop, city of Tver. Next stop, Moscow. - [Announcer] Dear ladies and gentlemen, to make your journey more
pleasant and comfortable, we invite you to visit
the business lounges located at the Leningradsky and
Moskovsky railway terminals, as well as the railway stations of Tver. - So about half an hour to go now until we arrive into Moscow. And I have to say, I wasn't really sure what to expect with the Sapsan bullet train. My original plan had been to get the overnight sleeper train down, leaving at half nine, and getting there at like six
in the morning or something, dashing across Moscow
to get my flight home. I put it to my Patreons and they said, "Why not try the bullet train?" And I did. And you know what? I'm quite pleased I did
because now we get to Moscow. I can take leisurely ride across the city to the airport hotel. I'm staying there and get a
bit of a lie-in in the morning and have ridden down in
quiet, nice style as well. So, yeah, thank you Patreons. Don't forget you can join on that link on the screen as well. Nice, old, little plug in there as well. But yeah, half an hour, I reckon, and then we'll be arriving into Moskva. So not far to go until
we arrive into Moscow, they've just come around
with a little gift for us. Don't know what it is actually so. Chocolate-covered nuts. Thank you, Russian Railways, very nice. Thank you, Sapsan. Oy, here we are then, Moscow. Leningradsky Station again, to my ride down from St. Petersburg on the Sapsan bullet train. How cool was that? It's nighttime in Moscow. I don't think I've ever seen nighttime in Moscow on this trip. So it doesn't get dark until like 11, and it gets light at midnight
or something, it's ridiculous. But anyway, next stop, let's try and get a car to the airport. My ride in Sapsan first class cost me 230 pounds or $317 US, working out at a cost
of 52 pence per mile. This makes it more expensive than the overnight Krasnaya
Strela train that I took. But it also meant that
I'd done the journey in just four hours. Don't forget to check out my
ride on the Krasnaya Strela at the link on the screen now. And let me know in the comments which of the two trains that you take between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Made it inside the terminal at Domodedovo airport, south of Moscow. Well, that was a nice trip, wasn't it, down on the Sapsan from
St. Petersburg to Moscow. I'm quite happy with that
because that means that now I get a good seven hours
sleep here in the hotel, and I don't have to be up
until sort of half seven, eight o'clock in the morning. Whereas if I'd have got the train, it would have been a 5:00 am wake-up call, and then an hour shooting
across the city of Moscow. So quite happy with that really. Nice little ride down on the Sapsan train. Let me know what you thought, do it down in the comments, but for me, well, I'm
off to get some sleep because tomorrow, heading home. Thanks so much for watching, take care, and I'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.
