I go for a walk at about 8:30am and for the first time since Amsterdam - I see the moon! I wish I had my camera. As I return home an hour or so later I notice the sky is clearing. Today is a "sunny" day. The ground dries and we take our cameras and go to St Isaac's Cathedral. After trudging up the 260 or so stairs (I hate heights!) I get to the top ( Read more... )

Lots of walking today. The shock is wearing off - once you get used to all the cyrillic you start to realise how much is in English. It also appears every bookshop in the centre has an English speaking section. We buy a much better map than we already have and a dictionary. We walk around the church of the saviour on spilled blood which is ( Read more... )

02-01-2007 ( Read more... )

Date: 01/01/2007

We sleep all day. Suffice to say I feel like shit.

31/12/06 ( Read more... )

Wow, we cross the border at about 3 am. After 5 checks of my passport and visa and filling in some forms, we're home free for the rest of our 4 hour bus ride ( Read more... )

Wow, day 3. Everything until Helsinki went wonderfully. We catch a bus into Helsinki since we are catching an international bus out. We go to the bus station to pay for our previously reserved tickets. She asks for my passport. It's gone. HOLY SHIT. Oh, and by the way, apparently I didn't reserve tickets. I'm not on the list. FUCK ( Read more... )

So we arrived around 8. We talked to the KLM people here and they are awesome and fulfilled everything that was required of them (though they neglect to mention any sort of refund that I'm pretty damn sure we're entitled to). They put us up in a fancy hotel, phone cards, and transport to the hotel ( Read more... )

Time: BNE 715 ( Read more... )

11:50 BNE, 9:50 Malay time ( Read more... )