Finally, today I kept my promise and had a rest. I spent most of the day inside watching TV. Except for a two hour spell in the afternoon when I went down to the river and laid on the grass in the sunshine. It was a beautiful day, just the right temperature, I spread out my jacket and laid down with my head in the shade of the tree and stuck in my headphones and actually feel asleep for a bit in the cool breeze. I stayed there for what seemed like ages conte...

Again today, I attempted to make a promise to myself. Have a rest. I must admit it did work better today. I managed to sleep in until about 9am and sat around watching TV for about an hour, before I went out to run a few errands. My number one plan for today was to get a new SIM card as the one I had was next to useless. I had a bit of trouble locating a phone shop, so I went into the tourist info who pointed me in the direction of a large shopping mall. ...

I got up today and went and had breakfast, checked out and said additional goodbyes to a few people I ran into. Some of whom I will actually miss, and some of whom I really won't. After breakfast, I met up with my four remaining passengers and proceeded to walk them down to the bus station. We got on the bus with no issues and drove out to the border with Estonia. Once at the border we didn't get off the bus, even though last time we did and with all our lu...

I promised myself a rest today, nothing, that was my intention. You know what they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It started off restful, I slept in and enjoyed my breakfast at about 8am. Yes, 8am is now officially considered a sleep in again. While I was having my breakfast, one of my passengers came running over to me and informed me that the hotel would not give her, her passport back. Odd. I went up and attempted to sort it out, t...

I woke up, yet again on a moving train at 5:30am and proceeded to go around and wake up my fifteen passengers and tell them to get ready to get off the train. We arrived in at St Petersburg at 6:30am, I took them straight onto the metro and then went four stops to Baltinskaya station. After that it was approximately a 1km walk with all the bags to hotel Azimut. The hotel was crowded and the rooms were not ready this early in the morning, so I got the passeng...