On the Road Again
Renting a car is easy.
At Sixt Biludlejning, all you have to have is a passport, a credit card and a valid driver"s license from anywhere in the world to rent a car. Other international car rental companies in Moscow include Avis and Hertz. These companies all have pick up locations in the center as well as at Moscow"s major airports.
Sixt"s fleet car seems to be the Ford Focus, and the company offers them in both the two- and four-door variety, with a manual or an automatic transmission. Sixt also has Volkswagen Golfs and Passats and Audi A4s and A6s available.
When I arrived at the rental office, the representative took my passport details, credit card and driver"s license and handed me a key and a pile of documents.
Fortunately, I did not end up needing any of the documents, including the "documents for if you get pulled over by the traffic police,' and the "document for entering back into Moscow.'
Out in the parking deck, with the keys in my hands, the representative made an excruciatingly slow check of the exterior of the car. The diagram of the car on her clipboard was soon covered in red checks and circles as she noted every ding, dent and scratch.
With that, she was satisfied, and I jumped in, barely restraining myself from revving the 110 horsepower, two-liter engine.....
